Le Gué (The Ford)

1849

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 15/16 × 5 7/16 in. (20.2 × 13.8 cm) Plate: 2 1/16 × 1 9/16 in. (5.3 × 4 cm)
Collection no.: 52.508.4
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Rodolphe Bresdin. Le Gué (The Ford). Rodolphe Bresdin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952. 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

Le Gué (The Ford) — Rodolphe Bresdin. 1849.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 15/16 × 5 7/16 in. (20.2 × 13.8 cm) Plate: 2 1/16 × 1 9/16 in. (5.3 × 4 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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