Landscape with Peasants Fording a Stream

1756

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk with brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions: 12 5/16 x 16 1/8 in. (31.3 x 41 cm.)
Collection no.: 2005.168
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Landscape with Peasants Fording a Stream. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Sally and Howard Lepow and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, and Mary Oenslager Fund, 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

Landscape with Peasants Fording a Stream — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1756.

Medium: Red chalk with brush and brown and gray wash. Dimensions: 12 5/16 x 16 1/8 in. (31.3 x 41 cm.).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Sally and Howard Lepow and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, and Mary Oenslager Fund, 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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