Art, literature & history
The Forum at Pompeii
1819
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 16 × 22 cm (6 5/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2020.15.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
Achille-Etna Michallon. The Forum at Pompeii. National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Forum at Pompeii — Achille-Etna Michallon. 1819.
Medium: oil on paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 16 × 22 cm (6 5/16 × 8 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2020.15.1. Gift of the Matthiesen Gallery and John Lishawa Ltd. in memory of E. A. Carmean Jr. (1945–2019) and Philip Conisbee (1946–2008), both curators at the National Gallery of Art.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.