View of Old Customs House in Rome

1807

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching with drypoint; third state of four
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 18 3/4 in. (32.5 × 47.6 cm) Plate: 9 5/16 × 13 11/16 in. (23.7 × 34.7 cm)
Collection no.: 19.56.63
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. View of Old Customs House in Rome. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Algernon S. Sullivan, 1919. 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

View of Old Customs House in Rome — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1807.

Medium: Etching with drypoint; third state of four. Dimensions: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 18 3/4 in. (32.5 × 47.6 cm) Plate: 9 5/16 × 13 11/16 in. (23.7 × 34.7 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Algernon S. Sullivan, 1919.

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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