Interior of a Church

1877

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white
Dimensions: 24 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. (62.9 x 48.9cm)
Collection no.: 1972.272
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Couture. Interior of a Church. Thomas Couture; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kashey and Martin Reymert in memory of Sanford Shanley Jr., 1972. 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

Interior of a Church — Thomas Couture. 1877.

Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white. Dimensions: 24 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. (62.9 x 48.9cm).

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. Robert F. Kashey and Martin Reymert in memory of Sanford Shanley Jr., 1972.

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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