Partie supérieure d’un tableau représentant le sacrifice Egyptien d’une vierge au Nil [The Upper Part of a Painting Representing the Egyptian Sacrifice of a Virgin to the Nile]

1867

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions: sheet: 37 × 55.2 cm (14 9/16 × 21 3/4 in.) plate: 24.5 × 39 cm (9 5/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Collection no.: 2013.30.13
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Federico Faruffini. Partie supérieure d’un tableau représentant le sacrifice Egyptien d’une vierge au Nil [The Upper Part of a Painting Representing the Egyptian Sacrifice of a Virgin to the Nile]. Federico Faruffini; 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:Federico_Faruffini,_Partie_sup%C3%A9rieure_d%E2%80%99un_tableau_repr%C3%A9sentant_le_sacrifice_Egyptien_d%E2%80%99une_vierge_au_Nil_(The_Upper_Part_of_a_Painting_Representing_the_Egyptian_Sacrifice_of_a_Virgin_to_the_Nile),_1867,_NGA_160879.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Partie supérieure d’un tableau représentant le sacrifice Egyptien d’une vierge au Nil [The Upper Part of a Painting Representing the Egyptian Sacrifice of a Virgin to the Nile] — Federico Faruffini. 1867.

Medium: etching and drypoint on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 37 × 55.2 cm (14 9/16 × 21 3/4 in.) plate: 24.5 × 39 cm (9 5/8 × 15 3/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.30.13. Pepita Milmore Memorial 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.

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