Art, literature & history
The Birth of Venus
late 1770s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- red chalk heightened with white on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 32.6 × 38.2 cm (12 13/16 × 15 1/16 in.) mount: 40.8 × 47.6 cm (16 1/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.131.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Gaetano Gandolfi. The Birth of Venus. Gaetano Gandolfi; 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:Gaetano_Gandolfi,_The_Birth_of_Venus,_late_1770s,_NGA_206793.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 Birth of Venus — Gaetano Gandolfi. late 1770s.
Medium: red chalk heightened with white on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 32.6 × 38.2 cm (12 13/16 × 15 1/16 in.) mount: 40.8 × 47.6 cm (16 1/16 × 18 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.131.2. Gift of David H. McDonnell.
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.