Goatherd

1763

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; fifth state of five
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 6 11/16 × 9 5/16 in. (17 × 23.7 cm)
Collection no.: 60.622.20
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Goatherd. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960. 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

Goatherd — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1763.

Medium: Etching; fifth state of five. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 6 11/16 × 9 5/16 in. (17 × 23.7 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, 1960.

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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