Putto Study, for the Lid of the Graham Family Piano

ca. 1879

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: White and reddish brown synthetic crayons on brown paper
Dimensions: Sheet (irregular): 14 in. × 8 5/8 in. (35.5 × 21.9 cm)
Collection no.: 2020.368
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Putto Study, for the Lid of the Graham Family Piano. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Elisa Korb, in memory of Gerald Korb, 2020. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Putto Study, for the Lid of the Graham Family Piano — Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. ca. 1879.

Medium: White and reddish brown synthetic crayons on brown paper. Dimensions: Sheet (irregular): 14 in. × 8 5/8 in. (35.5 × 21.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Elisa Korb, in memory of Gerald Korb, 2020.

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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