Seated Prophet

1779

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk (stumped), brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, on beige paper
Dimensions: 16-5/8 x 12-5/16 in. (42.2 x 31.2 cm)
Collection no.: 1989.108.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Gaetano Gandolfi. Seated Prophet. Gaetano Gandolfi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Jacob Bean, in memory of Donald P. Gurney, 1989. 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

Seated Prophet — Gaetano Gandolfi. 1779.

Medium: Black chalk (stumped), brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, on beige paper. Dimensions: 16-5/8 x 12-5/16 in. (42.2 x 31.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Jacob Bean, in memory of Donald P. Gurney, 1989.

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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