Art, literature & history
The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket
1525
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Collection no.
- 1944.14.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Lucas van Leyden. The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket. Lucas van Leyden; 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:Lucas_van_Leyden,_The_Poet_Virgil_Suspended_in_a_Basket,_1525,_NGA_30669.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket — Lucas van Leyden. 1525.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.14.2. 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.