Art, literature & history
Three Sleeping Sprites with a Satyr
1769
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.6 x 14.4 cm (4 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 38.4 cm (10 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.100.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salomon Gessner. Three Sleeping Sprites with a Satyr. 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,_Three_Sleeping_Sprites_with_a_Satyr,_1769,_NGA_111478.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Three Sleeping Sprites with a Satyr — Salomon Gessner. 1769.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.6 x 14.4 cm (4 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 38.4 cm (10 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.100.6. 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.