Art, literature & history
A Beggar
1833–38
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (11.5 × 9.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 62.591.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. A Beggar. 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
A Beggar — Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. 1833–38.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (11.5 × 9.6 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.