Art, literature & history
Two Satyrs in a Forest
1777
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.5 x 15 cm (7 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27 x 21.8 cm (10 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1997.132.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salomon Gessner. Two Satyrs in a Forest. 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,_Two_Satyrs_in_a_Forest,_1777,_NGA_102478.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Two Satyrs in a Forest — Salomon Gessner. 1777.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 19.5 x 15 cm (7 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27 x 21.8 cm (10 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1997.132.3. Gift of John O'Brien.
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.