Art, literature & history
Sword of Charlemagne
1864
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in. (40.3 × 30.3 cm) Plate: 14 × 8 1/16 in. (35.5 × 20.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 28.57.31
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart. Sword of Charlemagne. Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928. 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
Sword of Charlemagne — Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart. 1864.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in. (40.3 × 30.3 cm) Plate: 14 × 8 1/16 in. (35.5 × 20.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928.
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.