Portrait of Christian Bernhard Rode, the Artist's Father

ca. 1756

Dating: Approximate
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and lavis; first state of two
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 5 11/16 in. (20.5 × 14.5 cm) Plate: 6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in. (17 × 11.8 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.10
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Bernhard Rode. Portrait of Christian Bernhard Rode, the Artist's Father. Bernhard Rode; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018. 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 Christian Bernhard Rode, the Artist's Father — Bernhard Rode. ca. 1756.

Medium: Etching and lavis; first state of two. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 5 11/16 in. (20.5 × 14.5 cm) Plate: 6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in. (17 × 11.8 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018.

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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