Allegory of the Arts

1796

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing
Dimensions: sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (24.4 x 35.8 cm)
Collection no.: 2008.524
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Joseph-Marie Vien. Allegory of the Arts. Joseph-Marie Vien; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Guy Wildenstein and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, 2008. 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

Allegory of the Arts — Joseph-Marie Vien. 1796.

Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing. Dimensions: sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (24.4 x 35.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, 2008.

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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