Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia

1669

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN)
Dimensions: sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (40 x 28.2 cm)
Collection no.: 28.57.86
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Claude Mellan. Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia. Claude Mellan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift, Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928. 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

Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia — Claude Mellan. 1669.

Medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN). Dimensions: sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (40 x 28.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift, Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928.

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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