Art, literature & history
The Fall of the Giants
1663
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint
- Dimensions
- Plate: 28 3/8 × 18 9/16 in. (72 × 47.1 cm) Sheet: 29 15/16 × 20 3/8 in. (76 × 51.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 24.63.1829
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salvator Rosa. The Fall of the Giants. Salvator Rosa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Fall of the Giants — Salvator Rosa. 1663.
Medium: Etching with drypoint. Dimensions: Plate: 28 3/8 × 18 9/16 in. (72 × 47.1 cm) Sheet: 29 15/16 × 20 3/8 in. (76 × 51.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.