Art, literature & history
A King Pursued by a Unicorn
c. 1555
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 23.7 × 39.5 cm (9 5/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3707
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean Duvet. A King Pursued by a Unicorn. Jean Duvet; 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:Jean_Duvet,_A_King_Pursued_by_a_Unicorn,_c._1555,_NGA_6825.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A King Pursued by a Unicorn — Jean Duvet. c. 1555.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 23.7 × 39.5 cm (9 5/16 × 15 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3707. 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.