The Servant Justified

ca. 1740

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on copper
Dimensions: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Collection no.: 2004.85
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Nicolas Lancret. The Servant Justified. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Servant Justified — Nicolas Lancret. ca. 1740.

Medium: Oil on copper. Dimensions: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2004.

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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