Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm

1734–1802

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: 10 7/16 x 8in. (26.5 x 20.3cm)
Collection no.: 80.3.503
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Gaetano Gandolfi. Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm. Gaetano Gandolfi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm — Gaetano Gandolfi. 1734–1802.

Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: 10 7/16 x 8in. (26.5 x 20.3cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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