Art, literature & history
Man and Woman Descending Staircase
1819
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 20.3 x 13.2 cm (8 x 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 44.1 x 30.3 cm (17 3/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2004.128.17
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Gottfried Engelmann. Man and Woman Descending Staircase. Gottfried Engelmann; 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:Gottfried_Engelmann,_Man_and_Woman_Descending_Staircase,_1819,_NGA_111172.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Man and Woman Descending Staircase — Gottfried Engelmann. 1819.
Medium: lithograph on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 20.3 x 13.2 cm (8 x 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 44.1 x 30.3 cm (17 3/8 x 11 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2004.128.17. Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp.
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.