The Bee and the Hen

1724–97

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk
Dimensions: sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 7/8 in. (28.8 x 20 cm)
Collection no.: 2006.489
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Bernhard Rode. The Bee and the Hen. Bernhard Rode; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006. 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

The Bee and the Hen — Bernhard Rode. 1724–97.

Medium: Red chalk. Dimensions: sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 7/8 in. (28.8 x 20 cm).

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

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006.

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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