Art, literature & history
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
1744
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 28.7 × 38.7 cm (11 5/16 × 15 1/4 in.) sheet: 41.3 × 59.2 cm (16 1/4 × 23 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.117.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francesco Fontebasso. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Francesco Fontebasso; 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:Francesco_Fontebasso,_The_Sacrifice_of_Iphigenia,_1744,_NGA_166121.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia — Francesco Fontebasso. 1744.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 28.7 × 38.7 cm (11 5/16 × 15 1/4 in.) sheet: 41.3 × 59.2 cm (16 1/4 × 23 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.117.6. Gift of Karin Wachtel in memory of her husband, Cesare Morini.
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.