Art, literature & history
La Lac au Milieu de la Forêt (The Lake in the Middle of the Forest)
1849
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 3/8 × 6 7/16 in. (13.6 × 16.3 cm) Plate: 1 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (4.3 × 7.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 50.575.58
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Rodolphe Bresdin. La Lac au Milieu de la Forêt (The Lake in the Middle of the Forest). Rodolphe Bresdin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1950. 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
La Lac au Milieu de la Forêt (The Lake in the Middle of the Forest) — Rodolphe Bresdin. 1849.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 6 7/16 in. (13.6 × 16.3 cm) Plate: 1 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (4.3 × 7.8 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, 1950.
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.