Art, literature & history
The Poet Virgil in a Basket
1525
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Engraving; first state
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 7/16 in. (24.5 × 18.9 cm)
- Collection no.
- 41.1.23
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Lucas van Leyden. The Poet Virgil in a Basket. Lucas van Leyden; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Poet Virgil in a Basket — Lucas van Leyden. 1525.
Medium: Engraving; first state. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 7/16 in. (24.5 × 18.9 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.