Study of Five Heads

1803

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of two
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 in. × 9 1/4 in. (17.8 × 23.5 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in. (16.5 × 21.8 cm)
Collection no.: 17.3.1975
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Study of Five Heads. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. 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

Study of Five Heads — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1803.

Medium: Etching; first state of two. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 in. × 9 1/4 in. (17.8 × 23.5 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in. (16.5 × 21.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.

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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