Art, literature & history
The Rape of Ganymede
1769/71
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22 x 16.9 cm (8 11/16 x 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 38.4 cm (10 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.100.10
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salomon Gessner. The Rape of Ganymede. 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,_The_Rape_of_Ganymede,_1769-71,_NGA_111484.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Rape of Ganymede — Salomon Gessner. 1769/71.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 22 x 16.9 cm (8 11/16 x 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 38.4 cm (10 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.100.10. 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.