Siesta II (from the series Etched Sketches)

1879

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and aquatint on chine collé; second edition; between fourth and fifth states of five
Dimensions: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 1/16 in. (40.4 × 30.6 cm)
Collection no.: 52.594.22
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Max Klinger. Siesta II (from the series Etched Sketches). Max Klinger; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952. 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

Siesta II (from the series Etched Sketches) — Max Klinger. 1879.

Medium: Etching and aquatint on chine collé; second edition; between fourth and fifth states of five. Dimensions: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 1/16 in. (40.4 × 30.6 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952.

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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