Art, literature & history
Children Playing with a Dog
1789
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint and roulette; fifth state of six (Perez)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 8 3/16 × 6 9/16 in. (20.8 × 16.6 cm) Plate: 6 5/16 x 4 3/4 in. (16 x 12 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2000.361.14
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Children Playing with a Dog. 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
Children Playing with a Dog — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1789.
Medium: Etching with drypoint and roulette; fifth state of six (Perez). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 6 9/16 in. (20.8 × 16.6 cm) Plate: 6 5/16 x 4 3/4 in. (16 x 12 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.