Art, literature & history
Destruction of a Convent
c. 1633
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9.5 × 19.4 cm (3 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1950.1.36
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. Destruction of a Convent. Jacques Callot; 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:Jacques_Callot,_Destruction_of_a_Convent,_c._1633,_NGA_37072.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Destruction of a Convent — Jacques Callot. c. 1633.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9.5 × 19.4 cm (3 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1950.1.36. Rosenwald Collection.
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.