Study for "The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792"

ca. 1848–51

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: 17 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (43.8 x 54cm)
Collection no.: 60.142.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Couture. Study for "The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792". Thomas Couture; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1960. 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

Study for "The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792" — Thomas Couture. ca. 1848–51.

Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: 17 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (43.8 x 54cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1960.

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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