View of Beirut

1844

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 20 3/8 in. (33.3 x 51.7 cm)
Collection no.: 2003.42.12
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jules Coignet. View of Beirut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

View of Beirut — Jules Coignet. 1844.

Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas. Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 20 3/8 in. (33.3 x 51.7 cm).

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

Credit line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003.

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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