Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles

1793–97

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk (stumped), highlighted with white, on brownish paper
Dimensions: 12-1/16 x 16-7/8 in. (30.6 x 42.9 cm)
Collection no.: 62.132.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Gaetano Gandolfi. Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles. Gaetano Gandolfi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1962. 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

Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles — Gaetano Gandolfi. 1793–97.

Medium: Black chalk (stumped), highlighted with white, on brownish paper. Dimensions: 12-1/16 x 16-7/8 in. (30.6 x 42.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962.

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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