Art, literature & history
Artaxerxes Receiving the Head of Cyrus
c. 1490/1510
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- niello print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 4.1 x 6.7 cm (1 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6687
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Peregrino da Cesena. Artaxerxes Receiving the Head of Cyrus. Peregrino da Cesena; 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:Peregrino_da_Cesena,_Artaxerxes_Receiving_the_Head_of_Cyrus,_c._1490-1510,_NGA_9481.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Artaxerxes Receiving the Head of Cyrus — Peregrino da Cesena. c. 1490/1510.
Medium: niello print.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 4.1 x 6.7 cm (1 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6687. 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.