Art, literature & history
The "Canopus" of the Villa Adriana at Tivoli
1776
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- red chalk over black chalk on heavy laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 38.9 × 53.8 cm (15 5/16 × 21 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.69.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The "Canopus" of the Villa Adriana at Tivoli. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; 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:Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi,_The_%22Canopus%22_of_the_Villa_Adriana_at_Tivoli,_1776,_NGA_84647.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 "Canopus" of the Villa Adriana at Tivoli — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1776.
Medium: red chalk over black chalk on heavy laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 38.9 × 53.8 cm (15 5/16 × 21 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.69.1. Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann.
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.