The Rest (Le Repos)

1771

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 17 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (45 x 35 cm)
Collection no.: 2011.280
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. The Rest (Le Repos). Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 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

The Rest (Le Repos) — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1771.

Medium: Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink. Dimensions: sheet: 17 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (45 x 35 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 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.

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