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Ruins of the Château of Becoiseau, near Mortcerf (seine-et-Marne)
1784
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Brown chalk and brush and-brown wash. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
- Dimensions
- 9 15/16 x 13 7/16 in. (25.3 x 34.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1978.516.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johann Georg Wille. Ruins of the Château of Becoiseau, near Mortcerf (seine-et-Marne). Johann Georg Wille; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs, in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs, 1978. 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
Ruins of the Château of Becoiseau, near Mortcerf (seine-et-Marne) — Johann Georg Wille. 1784.
Medium: Brown chalk and brush and-brown wash. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.. Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 13 7/16 in. (25.3 x 34.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs, in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs, 1978.
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.