Daphnis Running toward Chloe

ca. 1798

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, brush with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on light tan wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 15/16 in. (27.5 x 22.7 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.234
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

François Gérard. Daphnis Running toward Chloe. François Gérard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012. 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

Daphnis Running toward Chloe — François Gérard. ca. 1798.

Medium: Black chalk, brush with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on light tan wove paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 15/16 in. (27.5 x 22.7 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012.

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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