Art, literature & history
La Course, from "Hero and Leander"
1801
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- Image: 7 5/8 × 6 1/8 in. (19.3 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 15/16 in. (28.2 × 20.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1975.608.7
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Philibert-Louis Debucourt. La Course, from "Hero and Leander". Philibert-Louis Debucourt; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1975. 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
La Course, from "Hero and Leander" — Philibert-Louis Debucourt. 1801.
Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Dimensions: Image: 7 5/8 × 6 1/8 in. (19.3 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 15/16 in. (28.2 × 20.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1975.
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.