Art, literature & history
Self-Portrait with Cows
1796
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint; eighth state of eight
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 7/8 in. (38.5 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 12 3/16 × 9 5/8 in. (31 × 24.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2000.361.24
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Self-Portrait with Cows. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of James David Draper, 2000. 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
Self-Portrait with Cows — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1796.
Medium: Etching with drypoint; eighth state of eight. Dimensions: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 7/8 in. (38.5 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 12 3/16 × 9 5/8 in. (31 × 24.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of James David Draper, 2000.
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.