Fishermen by Moonlight

ca. 1750–1800

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Colored aquatint
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 15/16 × 14 1/16 in. (25.2 × 35.7 cm)
Collection no.: 53.600.1554
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Claude Joseph Vernet. Fishermen by Moonlight. Claude Joseph Vernet; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. 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

Fishermen by Moonlight — Claude Joseph Vernet. ca. 1750–1800.

Medium: Colored aquatint. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 15/16 × 14 1/16 in. (25.2 × 35.7 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953.

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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