The Nightingale Sings

1923

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31 7/8 x 27 3/8 in. (81 x 69.5 cm)
Collection no.: 1972.145.6
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0License details

Mikhail Nesterov. The Nightingale Sings. Image credit: Mikhail Nesterov. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightingale_Sings_MET_ep1972.145.6.bw.R.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Nightingale Sings — Mikhail Nesterov. 1923.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 31 7/8 x 27 3/8 in. (81 x 69.5 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., 1972.

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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