Art, literature & history
La Caravelle (The Caravel)
1844
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 5/16 × 8 1/16 in. (13.5 × 20.4 cm) Plate: 1 15/16 × 2 13/16 in. (4.9 × 7.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1985.1072.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Rodolphe Bresdin. La Caravelle (The Caravel). Rodolphe Bresdin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1985. 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 Caravelle (The Caravel) — Rodolphe Bresdin. 1844.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 8 1/16 in. (13.5 × 20.4 cm) Plate: 1 15/16 × 2 13/16 in. (4.9 × 7.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1985.
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.