Art, literature & history
Elegant Couple Lunching in a Country Cottage
1778
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black and gray ink with gray wash on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 24.3 x 20.2 cm (9 9/16 x 7 15/16 in.) mount: 33.3 x 29.1 cm (13 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.78.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Antoine-François Sergent. Elegant Couple Lunching in a Country Cottage. Antoine-François Sergent; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine-Fran%C3%A7ois_Sergent,_Elegant_Couple_Lunching_in_a_Country_Cottage,_1778,_NGA_159281.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Elegant Couple Lunching in a Country Cottage — Antoine-François Sergent. 1778.
Medium: pen and black and gray ink with gray wash on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 24.3 x 20.2 cm (9 9/16 x 7 15/16 in.) mount: 33.3 x 29.1 cm (13 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.78.1. Purchased as a Gift from Ivan and Winifred Phillips in Honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.