Art, literature & history
The Straw Bale
1879
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (28.5 × 34.6 cm) Plate: 8 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (20.7 × 27 cm)
- Collection no.
- 31.20.12
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau. The Straw Bale. Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931. 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 Straw Bale — Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau. 1879.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (28.5 × 34.6 cm) Plate: 8 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (20.7 × 27 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931.
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.