The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1744: The Glorification of Virgil — Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain

The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1744: The Glorification of Virgil

1744

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
etching
Dimensions
plate: 37.9 × 44.9 cm (14 15/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Collection no.
2016.121.67.29
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1744: The Glorification of Virgil. Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1744: The Glorification of Virgil — Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. 1744.

Medium: etching.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 37.9 × 44.9 cm (14 15/16 × 17 11/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.121.67.29. Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison.

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.

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