Drawing for a Plate From "Gravures historiques des principaux événements Depuis l'Ouverture des Etats Generaux ..." Paris 1789

ca. 1789

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. (13.4 x 9.2 cm.)
Collection no.: 57.581.41
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-François Janinet. Drawing for a Plate From "Gravures historiques des principaux événements Depuis l'Ouverture des Etats Generaux ..." Paris 1789. Jean-François Janinet; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957. 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

Drawing for a Plate From "Gravures historiques des principaux événements Depuis l'Ouverture des Etats Generaux ..." Paris 1789 — Jean-François Janinet. ca. 1789.

Medium: Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray wash. Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. (13.4 x 9.2 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, 1957.

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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