Messenger at the Door of a Guardhouse

1786

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over a red chalk counterproof, and traces of graphite
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (37.4 x 23.2 cm)
Collection no.: 1985.112.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Philippe Louis Parizeau. Messenger at the Door of a Guardhouse. Philippe Louis Parizeau; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1985. 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

Messenger at the Door of a Guardhouse — Philippe Louis Parizeau. 1786.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over a red chalk counterproof, and traces of graphite. Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (37.4 x 23.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1985.

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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