A Seated Couple, Embracing

ca. 1865

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: White chalk with touches of graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/16 x 9 15/16 in. (33.5 x 25.2 cm)
Collection no.: 1997.453
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. A Seated Couple, Embracing. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Donahue, 1997. 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

A Seated Couple, Embracing — Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. ca. 1865.

Medium: White chalk with touches of graphite. Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/16 x 9 15/16 in. (33.5 x 25.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Donahue, 1997.

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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