Art, literature & history
The Sarcophagus
1763/1764
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 13.8 x 9.3 cm (5 7/16 x 3 11/16 in.) sheet: 17.6 x 13.8 cm (6 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1992.5.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Hubert Robert. The Sarcophagus. Hubert Robert; 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:Hubert_Robert,_The_Sarcophagus,_1763-1764,_NGA_74778.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 Sarcophagus — Hubert Robert. 1763/1764.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13.8 x 9.3 cm (5 7/16 x 3 11/16 in.) sheet: 17.6 x 13.8 cm (6 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1992.5.4. 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.