Orpheus and Eurydice

ca. 1590–95

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving, 2nd state
Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 4 in. (14 x 10.2 cm) trimmed to the platemark
Collection no.: 17.37.170
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Agostino Carracci. Orpheus and Eurydice. Agostino Carracci; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Henry Walters, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Orpheus and Eurydice — Agostino Carracci. ca. 1590–95.

Medium: Engraving, 2nd state. Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 4 in. (14 x 10.2 cm) trimmed to the platemark.

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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