Sketch for Children's Heads

1892

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Goldpoint
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 13/16 × 8 9/16 in. (25 × 21.8 cm)
Collection no.: 21.33.16
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Alphonse Legros. Sketch for Children's Heads. Alphonse Legros; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921. 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

Sketch for Children's Heads — Alphonse Legros. 1892.

Medium: Goldpoint. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 13/16 × 8 9/16 in. (25 × 21.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921.

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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