La Cité Liontaine (The Distant City)

1868–80

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph (transferred from third state of etching) (Van Gelder)
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 14 1/8 in. (31.5 × 35.8 cm) Image: 3 13/16 × 7 3/16 in. (9.7 × 18.3 cm)
Collection no.: 51.504.42
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

La Cité Liontaine (The Distant City) — Rodolphe Bresdin. 1868–80.

Medium: Lithograph (transferred from third state of etching) (Van Gelder). Dimensions: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 14 1/8 in. (31.5 × 35.8 cm) Image: 3 13/16 × 7 3/16 in. (9.7 × 18.3 cm).

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

Credit line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1951.

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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