Lais Taking Aristipp by Surprise

ca. 1801

Dating: Approximate
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Brush and gray ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper
Dimensions: sheet: 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (46.3 x 35 cm)
Collection no.: 2010.276
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Heinrich Füger. Lais Taking Aristipp by Surprise. Heinrich Füger; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010. 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

Lais Taking Aristipp by Surprise — Heinrich Füger. ca. 1801.

Medium: Brush and gray ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper. Dimensions: sheet: 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (46.3 x 35 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010.

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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