Art, literature & history
An "Académie": One Man Lifting the Legs of Another Man
1742–43
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 3/16 in. (28.2 x 38.5 cm) image: 10 13/16 x 15 3/16 in. (27.4 x 38.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 53.600.1119 (4)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles-André van Loo. An "Académie": One Man Lifting the Legs of Another Man. Charles-André van Loo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. 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
An "Académie": One Man Lifting the Legs of Another Man — Charles-André van Loo. 1742–43.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 3/16 in. (28.2 x 38.5 cm) image: 10 13/16 x 15 3/16 in. (27.4 x 38.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953.
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.