Le Chevalier et La Mort (The Knight and Death)

1866

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; third state of three (Van Gelder)
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 13/16 in. (25.6 × 35.1 cm) Plate: 6 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (17.5 × 25 cm)
Collection no.: 52.508.13
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Le Chevalier et La Mort (The Knight and Death) — Rodolphe Bresdin. 1866.

Medium: Etching; third state of three (Van Gelder). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 13/16 in. (25.6 × 35.1 cm) Plate: 6 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (17.5 × 25 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, 1952.

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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