Art, literature & history
Death Playing the Violin
1846
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 11/16 in. (28.5 × 19.5 cm) Plate: 4 3/4 × 3 9/16 in. (12 × 9 cm)
- Collection no.
- 22.63.56
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Émile Jacque. Death Playing the Violin. Charles Émile Jacque; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1922. 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
Death Playing the Violin — Charles Émile Jacque. 1846.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 11/16 in. (28.5 × 19.5 cm) Plate: 4 3/4 × 3 9/16 in. (12 × 9 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922.
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.