Art, literature & history
Monks in the Desert
1797
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint and roulette; fourth state of six
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 5/16 x 12 1/8 in. (44 x 30.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 67.798.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Monks in the Desert. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967. 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
Monks in the Desert — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1797.
Medium: Etching with drypoint and roulette; fourth state of six. Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 12 1/8 in. (44 x 30.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967.
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.