Art, literature & history
Birth of Adonis
c. 1515/1520
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 16.5 x 11.4 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6239
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Benedetto Montagna. Birth of Adonis. 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,_Birth_of_Adonis,_c._1515-1520,_NGA_9171.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Birth of Adonis — Benedetto Montagna. c. 1515/1520.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 16.5 x 11.4 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6239. 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.