Art, literature & history
The Children's Nurse Josephine
1770
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching; only state
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 13/16 in. (26 × 19.9 cm) Plate: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 18 cm)
- Collection no.
- 60.620.20
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. The Children's Nurse Josephine. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960. 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 Children's Nurse Josephine — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1770.
Medium: Etching; only state. Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 13/16 in. (26 × 19.9 cm) Plate: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 18 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, 1960.
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.