Art, literature & history
Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger
The Wager Won
1778
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of graphite
- Dimensions
- 10 1/2 x 8 11/16 in. (26.7 x 22 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1974.356.49
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger. The Wager Won. Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, 1974. 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 Wager Won — Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger. 1778.
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of graphite. Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 8 11/16 in. (26.7 x 22 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, 1974.
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.