Sodom's Modesty

1888

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 17 3/16 x 10 1/16 in. (43.7 x 25.5 cm) sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 11/16 in. (46.5 x 32.2 cm)
Collection no.: 49.55.285
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Félicien Rops. Sodom's Modesty. Félicien Rops; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 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

Sodom's Modesty — Félicien Rops. 1888.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 17 3/16 x 10 1/16 in. (43.7 x 25.5 cm) sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 11/16 in. (46.5 x 32.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 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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