A Young Man Leaning on a Fence

1785–92

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/2 in. × 4 in. (14 × 10.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.592
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

William Alexander. A Young Man Leaning on a Fence. William Alexander; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Andrew Clayton-Payne, 2018. 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 Young Man Leaning on a Fence — William Alexander. 1785–92.

Medium: Watercolor and graphite. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/2 in. × 4 in. (14 × 10.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Andrew Clayton-Payne, 2018.

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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