The Dispatch-Bearer

1880

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 84 in. (130.2 x 213.4 cm)
Collection no.: 25.110.26
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Alphonse de Neuville. The Dispatch-Bearer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Dispatch-Bearer — Alphonse de Neuville. 1880.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 84 in. (130.2 x 213.4 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900.

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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