Art, literature & history
Hylas and the Nymphs
1771
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 24.1 x 19 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 27.4 x 38.4 cm (10 13/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.100.14
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salomon Gessner. Hylas and the Nymphs. Salomon Gessner; 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:Salomon_Gessner,_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs,_1771,_NGA_111489.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Hylas and the Nymphs — Salomon Gessner. 1771.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 24.1 x 19 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 27.4 x 38.4 cm (10 13/16 x 15 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.100.14. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.