Art, literature & history
The Float of the Sun
1616
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 15 × 22.9 cm (5 7/8 × 9 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.5.336
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. The Float of the Sun. 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_Float_of_the_Sun,_1616,_NGA_36790.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 Float of the Sun — Jacques Callot. 1616.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 15 × 22.9 cm (5 7/8 × 9 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.336. 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.