Art, literature & history
Villagers at a City Gate Greeting a Dignitary
1764
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper tinted pale blue
- Dimensions
- plate: 21.5 x 18.9 cm (8 7/16 x 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 29.5 x 26 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.12.10
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salomon Gessner. Villagers at a City Gate Greeting a Dignitary. 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,_Villagers_at_a_City_Gate_Greeting_a_Dignitary,_1764,_NGA_94138.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Villagers at a City Gate Greeting a Dignitary — Salomon Gessner. 1764.
Medium: etching on laid paper tinted pale blue.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 21.5 x 18.9 cm (8 7/16 x 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 29.5 x 26 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.12.10. 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.