Vitam Mortuis Reddo (I Restore Life to the Dead)

1721

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 1 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. (4.8 x 6.6 cm) sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 1/16 in. (10.4 x 12.9 cm)
Collection no.: 20.96.225
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Bernard Picart. Vitam Mortuis Reddo (I Restore Life to the Dead). Bernard Picart; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. R.G. Wiener, 1920. 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

Vitam Mortuis Reddo (I Restore Life to the Dead) — Bernard Picart. 1721.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 1 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. (4.8 x 6.6 cm) sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 1/16 in. (10.4 x 12.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Dr. R.G. Wiener, 1920.

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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