Art, literature & history
Perseus Turning Phinneas to Stone with the Head of Medusa
1767
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with brown and gray wash over traces of graphite, with double border line by the artist in pen and gray ink, on laid paper, laid down
- Dimensions
- image (to outer framing line): 13.4 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1942.9.948
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Monnet. Perseus Turning Phinneas to Stone with the Head of Medusa. Charles Monnet; 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_Monnet,_Perseus_Turning_Phinneas_to_Stone_with_the_Head_of_Medusa,_1767,_NGA_2111.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Perseus Turning Phinneas to Stone with the Head of Medusa — Charles Monnet. 1767.
Medium: pen and black ink with brown and gray wash over traces of graphite, with double border line by the artist in pen and gray ink, on laid paper, laid down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image (to outer framing line): 13.4 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1942.9.948. Widener 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.