Art, literature & history
Democritus in Meditation
1662
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1972.66.39
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Salvator Rosa. Democritus in Meditation. Salvator Rosa; 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:Salvator_Rosa,_Democritus_in_Meditation,_1662,_NGA_53497.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Democritus in Meditation — Salvator Rosa. 1662.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1972.66.39. 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.