Art, literature & history
Democritus Meditating
1654
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (cut to platemark): 16.1 x 13.1 cm (6 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2003.15.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johann Heinrich Schönfeld. Democritus Meditating. Johann Heinrich Schönfeld; 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:Johann_Heinrich_Sch%C3%B6nfeld,_Democritus_Meditating,_1654,_NGA_126617.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Democritus Meditating — Johann Heinrich Schönfeld. 1654.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (cut to platemark): 16.1 x 13.1 cm (6 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2003.15.2. 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.