May

1772

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, brown, black or gray ink and watercolor
Dimensions: sheet: 5 3/16 x 7 7/16 in. (13.1 x 18.9 cm)
Collection no.: 2005.249.5
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Hendrik de Meyer II. May. Hendrik de Meyer II; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2005. 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

May — Hendrik de Meyer II. 1772.

Medium: Black chalk, brown, black or gray ink and watercolor. Dimensions: sheet: 5 3/16 x 7 7/16 in. (13.1 x 18.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2005.

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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