The Cabin Boy Fishing or Line Fishing

1862

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper, redrawn in graphite on verso
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 5/8 in. (13 × 19.4 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.11.12
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Charles-François Daubigny. The Cabin Boy Fishing or Line Fishing. Charles-François Daubigny; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and PECO Foundation Gift, 2018. 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 Cabin Boy Fishing or Line Fishing — Charles-François Daubigny. 1862.

Medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper, redrawn in graphite on verso. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 5/8 in. (13 × 19.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and PECO Foundation Gift, 2018.

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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