Art, literature & history
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
The Animals Going toward the Ark
1650/1655
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22.5 × 42.2 cm (8 7/8 × 16 5/8 in.) plate: 21.3 × 41 cm (8 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1973.34.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. The Animals Going toward the Ark. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; 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_Benedetto_Castiglione,_The_Animals_Going_toward_the_Ark,_1650-1655,_NGA_53975.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 Animals Going toward the Ark — Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. 1650/1655.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.5 × 42.2 cm (8 7/8 × 16 5/8 in.) plate: 21.3 × 41 cm (8 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1973.34.4. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.