The botanist: a man in a garden examining its contents

1860–70

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching on Japan paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (32.5 × 24.8 cm) Plate: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection no.: 23.106.2(1)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Marià Fortuny. The botanist: a man in a garden examining its contents. Marià Fortuny; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Junius S. Morgan. 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

The botanist: a man in a garden examining its contents — Marià Fortuny. 1860–70.

Medium: Etching on Japan paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (32.5 × 24.8 cm) Plate: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan.

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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