The Suicide of Portia

1612–16

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching with stippling and engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (24.4 × 18.8 cm)
Collection no.: 30.53.16
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jacques Bellange. The Suicide of Portia. Jacques Bellange; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930. 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

The Suicide of Portia — Jacques Bellange. 1612–16.

Medium: Etching with stippling and engraving. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (24.4 × 18.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930.

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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