Art, literature & history
Balthus Turned to Stone
1696
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 31.8 x 44.7 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/8 in.) sheet: 35.2 x 50 cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1985.3.16
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Crescenzio Onofri. Balthus Turned to Stone. Crescenzio Onofri; 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:Crescenzio_Onofri,_Balthus_Turned_to_Stone,_1696,_NGA_65805.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Balthus Turned to Stone — Crescenzio Onofri. 1696.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 31.8 x 44.7 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/8 in.) sheet: 35.2 x 50 cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1985.3.16. 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.