Three Butterflies and Two Moths — Wenceslaus Hollar

Wenceslaus Hollar

Three Butterflies and Two Moths

1646

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8 × 12 cm (3 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 8.2 × 12.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.)
Collection no.
1943.3.4950
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Wenceslaus Hollar. Three Butterflies and Two Moths. Wenceslaus Hollar; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Three Butterflies and Two Moths — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1646.

Medium: etching on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8 × 12 cm (3 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 8.2 × 12.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4950. Rosenwald 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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