Art, literature & history
The Fountain of Choulans
1764
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint; fourth state of five
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/8 in. (22.6 × 18.1 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (16.5 x 13.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 19.56.54
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. The Fountain of Choulans. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Algernon Sullivan, 1919. 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
The Fountain of Choulans — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1764.
Medium: Etching with drypoint; fourth state of five. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/8 in. (22.6 × 18.1 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (16.5 x 13.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Algernon Sullivan, 1919.
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.