L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts

1698

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; seventh state of eight
Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25 x 38.5 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 x 15 1/4 in. (25.3 x 38.8 cm)
Collection no.: 62.598.300
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sébastien Le Clerc I. L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts. Sébastien Le Clerc I; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962. 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

L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts — Sébastien Le Clerc I. 1698.

Medium: Etching; seventh state of eight. Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25 x 38.5 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 x 15 1/4 in. (25.3 x 38.8 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962.

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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