The Old Italian Woman

1857 · Painting

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room815

On public display.

Checked: 4 hours ago
In this state since: Sep 26, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

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Particulars

Accession number: 66.65.2

What it shows

Portrait Woman

Sources

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 4 days ago
Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access (CC0)

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The Dance Class

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Horse Galloping on the Right Foot

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Neighbors at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum page

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Johannes Vermeer

Woman with a Water Jug, ca. 1662

Rembrandt van Rijn

Self-Portrait, 1660

Scabbard slide, 3rd–1st century BC

Fon artist

Asen (commemorative altar), late 19th century–mid-20th century

Partial Statuette of a Hippo Goddess, 664–332 BCE

Giambologna

The Old Italian Woman

Yes, receiving visitors

Particulars

What it shows

Sources

More by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon

The Dance Class

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Study in the Nude of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (Nude Little Dancer)

Horse Galloping on the Right Foot

Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground

Neighbors at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889

Woman with a Water Jug, ca. 1662

Self-Portrait, 1660

Scabbard slide, 3rd–1st century BC

Asen (commemorative altar), late 19th century–mid-20th century

Partial Statuette of a Hippo Goddess, 664–332 BCE

Fortuna, 17th-18th Century (?)

Raised relief fragment, 664–610 BCE

The Old Italian Woman

Yes, receiving visitors

Particulars

What it shows

Sources

More by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon

The Dance Class

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Study in the Nude of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (Nude Little Dancer)

Horse Galloping on the Right Foot

Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground

Neighbors at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889

Woman with a Water Jug, ca. 1662

Self-Portrait, 1660

Scabbard slide, 3rd–1st century BC

Asen (commemorative altar), late 19th century–mid-20th century

Partial Statuette of a Hippo Goddess, 664–332 BCE

Fortuna, 17th-18th Century (?)

Raised relief fragment, 664–610 BCE