Sleeping on Board the Boat

1861

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of three (Delteil)
Dimensions: Image: 4 5/16 × 5 1/8 in. (11 × 13 cm) Plate: 5 9/16 × 5 7/8 in. (14.2 × 15 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (18 × 23 cm)
Collection no.: 23.65.60
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Charles-François Daubigny. Sleeping on Board the Boat. 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

Sleeping on Board the Boat — Charles-François Daubigny. 1861.

Medium: Etching; second state of three (Delteil). Dimensions: Image: 4 5/16 × 5 1/8 in. (11 × 13 cm) Plate: 5 9/16 × 5 7/8 in. (14.2 × 15 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (18 × 23 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.

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