Art, literature & history
Crayfish Looking at the Sun
1628
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 6.1 × 8.1 cm (2 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.) sheet: 8.7 × 10.2 cm (3 7/16 × 4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1969.15.571
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. Crayfish Looking at 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,_Crayfish_Looking_at_the_Sun,_1628,_NGA_51726.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Crayfish Looking at the Sun — Jacques Callot. 1628.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 6.1 × 8.1 cm (2 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.) sheet: 8.7 × 10.2 cm (3 7/16 × 4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1969.15.571. R.L. Baumfeld 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.