Art, literature & history
Portrait of Abram Jacob Messir
1841
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Colored chalks and watercolor with white gouache (bodycolor) on gray paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 17 x 11 1/4 in. (43.2 x 28.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2003.104
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Sir David Wilkie. Portrait of Abram Jacob Messir. Sir David Wilkie; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Anne and Jean Bonna Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2003. 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
Portrait of Abram Jacob Messir — Sir David Wilkie. 1841.
Medium: Colored chalks and watercolor with white gouache (bodycolor) on gray paper. Dimensions: sheet: 17 x 11 1/4 in. (43.2 x 28.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Anne and Jean Bonna Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2003.
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.