Costal Navigation Boats (Coast of Italy)

1874

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of three
Dimensions: Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 24 cm) Sheet: 12 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (30.7 × 48 cm)
Collection no.: 59.580.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Adolphe Appian. Costal Navigation Boats (Coast of Italy). Adolphe Appian; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Paul L. Rittenhouse,1959. 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

Costal Navigation Boats (Coast of Italy) — Adolphe Appian. 1874.

Medium: Etching; first state of three. Dimensions: Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 24 cm) Sheet: 12 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (30.7 × 48 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Paul L. Rittenhouse,1959.

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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