Art, literature & history
Inuit Manner of Dress
1769
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk, with additions in graphite
- Dimensions
- sheet: 6 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (17 x 12 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.54
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Inuit Manner of Dress. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; 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
Inuit Manner of Dress — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1769.
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk, with additions in graphite. Dimensions: sheet: 6 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (17 x 12 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.