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Homer and Calliope

Tommaso Conca · c. 1786

Tommaso Conca: Italian, 1734 - 1822

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Homer and Calliope

c. 1786

black chalk with brown and gray wash and white andpink heightening, squared in graphite, on brown p aper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
black chalk with brown and gray wash and white andpink heightening, squared in graphite, on brown p aper
Dimensions
overall: 32.6 x 24.4 cm (12 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Collection no.
1985.1.27
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By the artist
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Tommaso Conca. Homer and Calliope. Tommaso Conca; 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:Tommaso_Conca,_Homer_and_Calliope,_c._1786,_NGA_65743.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Homer and Calliope — Tommaso Conca. c. 1786.

Medium: black chalk with brown and gray wash and white andpink heightening, squared in graphite, on brown p aper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 32.6 x 24.4 cm (12 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1985.1.27. Julius S. Held Collection.

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.

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Tommaso Conca. Homer and Calliope. Tommaso Conca; 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:Tommaso_Conca,_Homer_and_Calliope,_c._1786,_NGA_65743.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.