Leaf of Sketches

1833–38

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 × 7 3/8 in. (25 × 18.8 cm) Sheet: 12 5/16 × 8 15/16 in. (31.3 × 22.7 cm)
Collection no.: 62.591.4
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. Leaf of Sketches. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962. 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

Leaf of Sketches — Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. 1833–38.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 × 7 3/8 in. (25 × 18.8 cm) Sheet: 12 5/16 × 8 15/16 in. (31.3 × 22.7 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962.

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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