Art, literature & history
The Birth of Venus
1506
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed within platemark): 19.7 × 15 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1941.1.66
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Marcantonio Raimondi. The Birth of Venus. Marcantonio Raimondi; 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:Marcantonio_Raimondi,_The_Birth_of_Venus,_NGA_644.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 Birth of Venus — Marcantonio Raimondi. 1506.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed within platemark): 19.7 × 15 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1941.1.66. Gift of W.G. Russell Allen.
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.