The Branches of an Oak Tree

ca. 1837

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 4 in. × 7 5/16 in. (10.2 × 18.6 cm)
Collection no.: 49.50.361
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Eugène Bléry. The Branches of an Oak Tree. Eugène Bléry; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. 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 Branches of an Oak Tree — Eugène Bléry. ca. 1837.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 4 in. × 7 5/16 in. (10.2 × 18.6 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.

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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