Oxcart Approaching a Fortified Building

1817

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Point of brush and brown wash, over graphite
Dimensions: 3 15/16 x 6 in. (10 x 15.2 cm)
Collection no.: 1988.23
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Achille-Etna Michallon. Oxcart Approaching a Fortified Building. Achille-Etna Michallon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Van Day Truex Fund, 1988. 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

Oxcart Approaching a Fortified Building — Achille-Etna Michallon. 1817.

Medium: Point of brush and brown wash, over graphite. Dimensions: 3 15/16 x 6 in. (10 x 15.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1988.

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.

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