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Frontispiece: a man reaches toward a fallen column, a seated man beside him, trees and ruins beyond, from the series 'Views of Italy' (Vues d'Italie)
1645
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 3 x 4 13/16 in. (7.6 x 12.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.158
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Israël Silvestre. Frontispiece: a man reaches toward a fallen column, a seated man beside him, trees and ruins beyond, from the series 'Views of Italy' (Vues d'Italie). Israël Silvestre; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. 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
Frontispiece: a man reaches toward a fallen column, a seated man beside him, trees and ruins beyond, from the series 'Views of Italy' (Vues d'Italie) — Israël Silvestre. 1645.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 3 x 4 13/16 in. (7.6 x 12.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
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.