Art, literature & history
Pittacus Mitylanaeus
1616
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 30.5 x 19.1 cm (12 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 30.6 x 19.2 cm (12 1/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.45.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques de Gheyn III. Pittacus Mitylanaeus. Jacques de Gheyn III; 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_de_Gheyn_III,_Pittacus_Mitylanaeus,_1616,_NGA_137892.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Pittacus Mitylanaeus — Jacques de Gheyn III. 1616.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 30.5 x 19.1 cm (12 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 30.6 x 19.2 cm (12 1/16 x 7 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.45.3. 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.