Art, literature & history
The Massacre of the Innocents, Second Plate
1622
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on vellum [proof]
- Dimensions
- plate: 13.5 x 10.8 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/4 in.) sheet: 17.4 x 14.1 cm (6 7/8 x 5 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.4.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. The Massacre of the Innocents, Second Plate. 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,_The_Massacre_of_the_Innocents,_Second_Plate,_1622,_NGA_121880.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 Massacre of the Innocents, Second Plate — Jacques Callot. 1622.
Medium: etching on vellum [proof].
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13.5 x 10.8 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/4 in.) sheet: 17.4 x 14.1 cm (6 7/8 x 5 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.4.1. 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.