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Two mules bearing panniers and outfitted with blinders, plumes, and tassels; one mule in three-quarter view and behind it a mule in frontal view; beyond a man mounted on a horse directs mules with a rod
ca. 1641–78
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 x 5 1/2 in. (15.3 x 13.9 cm) sheet: 7 5/16 x 6 3/4 in. (18.6 x 17.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.692
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Karel Dujardin. Two mules bearing panniers and outfitted with blinders, plumes, and tassels; one mule in three-quarter view and behind it a mule in frontal view; beyond a man mounted on a horse directs mules with a rod. Karel Dujardin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. 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
Two mules bearing panniers and outfitted with blinders, plumes, and tassels; one mule in three-quarter view and behind it a mule in frontal view; beyond a man mounted on a horse directs mules with a rod — Karel Dujardin. ca. 1641–78.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 6 x 5 1/2 in. (15.3 x 13.9 cm) sheet: 7 5/16 x 6 3/4 in. (18.6 x 17.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
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.