Art, literature & history
The Bagpiper
1833–38
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint; second state of two
- Dimensions
- Plate: 6 9/16 × 5 1/8 in. (16.6 × 13 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (26 × 18.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 64.605.21
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. The Bagpiper. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964. 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
The Bagpiper — Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. 1833–38.
Medium: Etching and drypoint; second state of two. Dimensions: Plate: 6 9/16 × 5 1/8 in. (16.6 × 13 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (26 × 18.6 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, 1964.
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.