Postilion on Horse in a Winter Landscape

ca. 1798

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor. Framing line in pen and black ink.
Dimensions: sheet: 14 9/16 x 19 11/16 in. (37 x 50 cm)
Collection no.: 2006.328
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Wilhelm von Kobell. Postilion on Horse in a Winter Landscape. Wilhelm von Kobell; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Mrs. Howard J. Barnet Gift, 2006. 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

Postilion on Horse in a Winter Landscape — Wilhelm von Kobell. ca. 1798.

Medium: Watercolor. Framing line in pen and black ink.. Dimensions: sheet: 14 9/16 x 19 11/16 in. (37 x 50 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Mrs. Howard J. Barnet Gift, 2006.

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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