Public Writer

1790

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; third state of four
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 11 7/16 × 16 1/4 in. (29.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection no.: 2000.361.15
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Public Writer. 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

Public Writer — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1790.

Medium: Etching; third state of four. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 11 7/16 × 16 1/4 in. (29.1 × 41.3 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.

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