Art, literature & history
Arachne
1884
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching, printed in brown ink, with plate tone
- Dimensions
- sheet: 12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. (30.6 x 22.3 cm) image: 11 7/16 x 8 5/16 in. (29 x 21.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 38.14.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Otto Henry Bacher. Arachne. Otto Henry Bacher; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Otto H. Bacher, 1938. 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
Arachne — Otto Henry Bacher. 1884.
Medium: Etching, printed in brown ink, with plate tone. Dimensions: sheet: 12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. (30.6 x 22.3 cm) image: 11 7/16 x 8 5/16 in. (29 x 21.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Otto H. Bacher, 1938.
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.