God Creating the Animals

ca. 1590–1630

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 17 15/16 in. (33.6 × 45.6 cm)
Collection no.: 51.501.3365
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Antonio Tempesta. God Creating the Animals. Antonio Tempesta; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951. 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

God Creating the Animals — Antonio Tempesta. ca. 1590–1630.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 17 15/16 in. (33.6 × 45.6 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951.

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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