Art, literature & history
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
1720/1724
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on gray-blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 34.6 × 49.2 cm (13 5/8 × 19 3/8 in.) mount: 42.5 × 29 cm (16 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.) framed: 56.52 × 66.68 cm (22 1/4 × 26 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2019.83.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
Paolo Gerolamo Piola. Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence — Paolo Gerolamo Piola. 1720/1724.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on gray-blue laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 34.6 × 49.2 cm (13 5/8 × 19 3/8 in.) mount: 42.5 × 29 cm (16 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.) framed: 56.52 × 66.68 cm (22 1/4 × 26 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2019.83.1. Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner.
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.