Art, literature & history
Little Birds
1850
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching; fourth state of four (Delteil)
- Dimensions
- Image: 5 7/8 in. × 4 in. (14.9 × 10.2 cm) Plate: 7 1/2 in. × 5 in. (19.1 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 9 in. × 6 1/2 in. (22.9 × 16.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.21.14
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles-François Daubigny. Little Birds. Charles-François Daubigny; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of David Keppel, 1917. 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
Little Birds — Charles-François Daubigny. 1850.
Medium: Etching; fourth state of four (Delteil). Dimensions: Image: 5 7/8 in. × 4 in. (14.9 × 10.2 cm) Plate: 7 1/2 in. × 5 in. (19.1 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 9 in. × 6 1/2 in. (22.9 × 16.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917.
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.