Art, literature & history
Desdemona's Death-Song
1878/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk over traces of red chalk on two joined sheets of blue-green paper
- Dimensions
- overall (frame size): 127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2005.76.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Desdemona's Death-Song. Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 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:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti,_Desdemona%27s_Death-Song,_1878-1880,_NGA_132404.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Desdemona's Death-Song — Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1878/1880.
Medium: black chalk over traces of red chalk on two joined sheets of blue-green paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (frame size): 127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2005.76.1. New Century Fund and Paul Mellon 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.