Art, literature & history
The Knifesharpener
1907
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- drypoint
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 36 x 54.3 cm (14 3/16 x 21 3/8 in.); Platemark: 22 x 46.9 cm (8 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2005.340
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean François Raffaëlli. The Knifesharpener. Jean François Raffaëlli; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of her husband Robert Lundie Shearer. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Knifesharpener — Jean François Raffaëlli. 1907.
Medium: drypoint. Dimensions: Sheet: 36 x 54.3 cm (14 3/16 x 21 3/8 in.); Platemark: 22 x 46.9 cm (8 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.