Art, literature & history
Conversation Piece
1789–93
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.7 x 14.9cm)
- Collection no.
- 11.66.18
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Louis-Léopold Boilly. Conversation Piece. Louis-Léopold Boilly; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1911. 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
Conversation Piece — Louis-Léopold Boilly. 1789–93.
Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.7 x 14.9cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1911.
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.