Mexican Sacrifice to the God of Hunting

1722

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite and red chalk, heightened with white. Contours incised. Verso reddened for transfer.
Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (14.9 x 20.9 cm)
Collection no.: 1974.206
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Bernard Picart. Mexican Sacrifice to the God of Hunting. Bernard Picart; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959. 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

Mexican Sacrifice to the God of Hunting — Bernard Picart. 1722.

Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite and red chalk, heightened with white. Contours incised. Verso reddened for transfer.. Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (14.9 x 20.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959.

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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