Art, literature & history
The Departure
1861
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching; second state of three (Delteil)
- Dimensions
- Image: 4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in. (11 × 16.8 cm) Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (14 × 19 cm) Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (17 × 25.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 23.65.55
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles-François Daubigny. The Departure. Charles-François Daubigny; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923. 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 Departure — Charles-François Daubigny. 1861.
Medium: Etching; second state of three (Delteil). Dimensions: Image: 4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in. (11 × 16.8 cm) Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (14 × 19 cm) Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (17 × 25.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923.
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.