Art, literature & history
Portrait of Colbert
1800
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 3/16 in. (27 × 18.3 cm) Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 13/16 in. (21.7 × 14.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.3.756–1301
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Portrait of Colbert. Augustin de Saint-Aubin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. 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
Portrait of Colbert — Augustin de Saint-Aubin. 1800.
Medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 3/16 in. (27 × 18.3 cm) Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 13/16 in. (21.7 × 14.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.
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.