Art, literature & history
Rescue (Rettung)
1878/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on chine collé
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.6 x 18.1 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/8 in.) sheet: 52.8 x 34.6 cm (20 13/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.82.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Max Klinger. Rescue (Rettung). Max Klinger; 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:Max_Klinger,_Rescue_(Rettung),_1878-1880,_NGA_94920.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Rescue (Rettung) — Max Klinger. 1878/1880.
Medium: etching in black on chine collé.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.6 x 18.1 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/8 in.) sheet: 52.8 x 34.6 cm (20 13/16 x 13 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.82.4. Anonymous Gift.
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.