Cossack at the Well

1815

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; before first state
Dimensions: plate: 7 x 9 3/4 in. sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 in.
Collection no.: 69.582.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Johann Christoph Erhard. Cossack at the Well. Johann Christoph Erhard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969. 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

Cossack at the Well — Johann Christoph Erhard. 1815.

Medium: Etching; before first state. Dimensions: plate: 7 x 9 3/4 in. sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 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, 1969.

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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