Art, literature & history
The Pilot of Tonga
1855
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching (from two plates) printed in black and red ink on laid paper.
- Dimensions
- plate: 8 x 5 11/16 in. (20.3 x 14.4 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.78.30
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. The Pilot of Tonga. Charles Meryon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 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
The Pilot of Tonga — Charles Meryon. 1855.
Medium: Etching (from two plates) printed in black and red ink on laid paper.. Dimensions: plate: 8 x 5 11/16 in. (20.3 x 14.4 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 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.