Art, literature & history
Copy after an Ancient Sarcophagus
ca. 1752–56
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. (19 × 13.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2021.15.16
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Augustin Pajou. Copy after an Ancient Sarcophagus. Augustin Pajou; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of James David Draper, 2019. 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
Copy after an Ancient Sarcophagus — Augustin Pajou. ca. 1752–56.
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. (19 × 13.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of James David Draper and the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2020.
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.