Art, literature & history
The Washerwomen (Les Laveuses)
1771
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink
- Dimensions
- sheet: 13 3/8 x 9 9/16 in. (34 x 24.3 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2010.543
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. The Washerwomen (Les Laveuses). Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 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
The Washerwomen (Les Laveuses) — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1771.
Medium: Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink. Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/8 x 9 9/16 in. (34 x 24.3 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 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.