Art, literature & history
Defeat of the Ethiopians
1613
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed close to plate mark): 19 x 28.5 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1974.55.22
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Antonio Tempesta. Defeat of the Ethiopians. Antonio Tempesta; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Tempesta,_Defeat_of_the_Ethiopians,_1613,_NGA_54497.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Defeat of the Ethiopians — Antonio Tempesta. 1613.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed close to plate mark): 19 x 28.5 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1974.55.22. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.