Art, literature & history
The Rape of Europa
c. 1515/1520
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 17.9 x 12.6 cm (7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.5.91
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Benedetto Montagna. The Rape of Europa. Benedetto Montagna; 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:Benedetto_Montagna,_The_Rape_of_Europa,_c._1515-1520,_NGA_30867.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Rape of Europa — Benedetto Montagna. c. 1515/1520.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 17.9 x 12.6 cm (7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1945.5.91. Rosenwald Collection.
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.