Art, literature & history
Aurora (Dawn)
c. 1640
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 18.1 x 23.5 cm (7 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 18.9 x 24 cm (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.18.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Le Brun. Aurora (Dawn). Charles Le Brun; 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:Charles_Le_Brun,_Aurora_(Dawn),_c._1640,_NGA_138516.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Aurora (Dawn) — Charles Le Brun. c. 1640.
Medium: etching with engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18.1 x 23.5 cm (7 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 18.9 x 24 cm (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.18.1. 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.