Orpheus

1610–42

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (13.9 x 21 cm)
Collection no.: 24.63.1116(60)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Pierre Brebiette. Orpheus. Pierre Brebiette; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924. 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

Orpheus — Pierre Brebiette. 1610–42.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (13.9 x 21 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924.

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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