Artist Monograph

Jean Metzinger, French

French, 1883–1956

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	3	37.5%
Lithography	2	25%
Oil Painting	2	25%
Drawing	1	12.5%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	6	75%
Painting & Sculpture	2	25%

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 5
Painting — 2
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	4	57.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	42.9%

Range: 16.1 cm → 92.1 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1941	1
1960	1
1964	4
1978	1
2022	1

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 5, 503" — 1

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 8 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Landscape Painting Acc. 410.1941	1912-14?	Oil on canvas	28 3/4 x 36 1/4" (73 x 92.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of T. Catesby Jones
The Smoker Drawing Acc. 133.1978	(1914)	Charcoal on paper	22 1/8 x 17 3/4" (56.1 x 45.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Still Life with Lamp Painting Acc. 412.1960	1916	Oil on canvas mounted on board	32 x 23 7/8" (81.2 x 60.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston
Duplicate of plate from Du Cubisme (On Cubism) Illustrated Book Acc. 1102.1964.B15	1947	Drypoint from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with seven etchings (two with engraving, one with drypoint, one with both), three drypoints, two aquatint and engravings, and a supplementary suite of twenty-two plates	plate: 6 15/16 × 5 1/8" (17.7 × 13 cm); sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 7/16" (25.3 × 18.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Plate (page 31) from Du Cubisme (On Cubism) Illustrated Book Acc. 1102.1964.A04	1947	Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven etchings (two with engraving, one with drypoint, one with both), three drypoints, two aquatint and engravings, and a supplementary suite of twenty-two plates	plate: 7 1/16 × 5 1/8" (17.9 × 13 cm); page (each): 9 13/16 × 8 1/16" (25 × 20.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Variant of plate from Du Cubisme (On Cubism) Illustrated Book Acc. 1102.1964.B04	1947	Drypoint from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with seven etchings (two with engraving, one with drypoint, one with both), three drypoints, two aquatint and engravings, and a supplementary suite of twenty-two plates	plate: 6 15/16 × 5 1/8" (17.7 × 13 cm); sheet: 10 × 7 7/16" (25.4 × 18.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Folio 8 from Poésie de mots inconnus (Poetry of Unknown Words) Illustrated Book Acc. 490.2022.8	1949	Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut	plate (partial): 6 5/16 x 4 15/16" (16.1 x 12.5cm); page: 12 13/16 × 9 13/16" (32.5 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
In-text plate (folio 8) from Poésie de mots inconnus Illustrated Book Acc. 992.1964.8	1949	Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut	plate (partial): 6 5/16 x 4 15/16" (16.1 x 12.5cm); page: 12 13/16 × 9 13/16" (32.5 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection