Marcus Curtius, from "The Roman Heroes" — Hendrik Goltzius

Hendrik Goltzius

Marcus Curtius, from "The Roman Heroes"

1586

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Engraving; first state
Dimensions
14 9/16 x 9 1/2 in. (37 x 24.1 cm)
Collection no.
49.97.691
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Hendrik Goltzius. Marcus Curtius, from "The Roman Heroes". Hendrik Goltzius; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Marcus Curtius, from "The Roman Heroes" — Hendrik Goltzius. 1586.

Medium: Engraving; first state. Dimensions: 14 9/16 x 9 1/2 in. (37 x 24.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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