Art, literature & history
The Rape of Proserpina
1592/1607
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut and wood engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 45.6 × 35 cm (17 15/16 × 13 3/4 in.), cut to image
- Collection no.
- 2016.170.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giuseppe Scolari. The Rape of Proserpina. Giuseppe Scolari; 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:Giuseppe_Scolari,_The_Rape_of_Proserpina,_1590-1607,_NGA_207651.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 Rape of Proserpina — Giuseppe Scolari. 1592/1607.
Medium: woodcut and wood engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 45.6 × 35 cm (17 15/16 × 13 3/4 in.), cut to image.
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.170.1. Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition 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.