Frontispiece, from Bussy-Rabutin's "'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules"

1754

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 4 13/16 × 2 11/16 in. (12.3 × 6.9 cm)
Collection no.: 56.500.42(4)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Pierre-Philippe Choffard. Frontispiece, from Bussy-Rabutin's "'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules". Pierre-Philippe Choffard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956. 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

Frontispiece, from Bussy-Rabutin's "'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules" — Pierre-Philippe Choffard. 1754.

Medium: Etching and engraving. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 4 13/16 × 2 11/16 in. (12.3 × 6.9 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, 1956.

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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