Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique

ca. 1857

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk on blue paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions: Sheet with canted corners: 17 3/16 x 17 3/16 in. (43.7 x 43.7 cm)
Collection no.: 60.142.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Couture. Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique. 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 decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique — Thomas Couture. ca. 1857.

Medium: Black chalk on blue paper mounted on cardboard. Dimensions: Sheet with canted corners: 17 3/16 x 17 3/16 in. (43.7 x 43.7 cm).

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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