Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose

ca. 1874

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk or graphite
Dimensions: 7 x 4 1/4 in. (17.8 x 10.8 cm)
Collection no.: 65.639.8
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jehan Georges Vibert. Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose. Jehan Georges Vibert; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Emma Avery Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, 1965. 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

Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose — Jehan Georges Vibert. ca. 1874.

Medium: Black chalk or graphite. Dimensions: 7 x 4 1/4 in. (17.8 x 10.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Emma Avery Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, 1965.

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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