Citing Images from Museum Websites
Art museum websites provide many opportunities to view and learn about works of art from their collections. The images below are from the National Gallery of Art's website.
Underneath each image find examples of how to caption images and format a citation source in MLA Style.
Fig. 1. Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci [obverse]. Fig. 2. Leonardo da Vinci, Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll…
Works Cited
da Vinci, Leonardo. Ginevra de/Benci [obverse]. c.1474-1478. National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50724.html.
da Vinci, Leonardo. Wreath of Laurel Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtuten Forma Decorat [reverse]. c.1474- 1478. National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50725.html.
Citing images in MLA style
From a website
Artist’s Last name, First name. Title. Year. Institution/collection name, Website address, URL of image.
An artwork viewed in person at a museum or gallery
Artist’s Last name, First name. Title. Year, Institution name, Location of institution.
From a print source
Refer to it in your text and create a works-cited-list entry for the book as whole in which the image appears
OR
List any relevant information about the image in the source and the source's publication information
Artist’s Last name, First name. Title. Year, Institution/collection. Title of print source, by Author’s/editor’s First name Last name, Publisher, Year. Page/plate number.
For more information, see the MLA Handbook for Writers, 8th ed., pp. 49 and 50-53.