The Jewish Family Sitting Around the Stove

1817

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state
Dimensions: plate: 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. sheet: 8 x 10 1/8 in.
Collection no.: 49.21.30
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Johann Christoph Erhard. The Jewish Family Sitting Around the Stove. Johann Christoph Erhard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. 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 Jewish Family Sitting Around the Stove — Johann Christoph Erhard. 1817.

Medium: Etching; first state. Dimensions: plate: 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. sheet: 8 x 10 1/8 in..

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.

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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