Lais Taking Aristipp by Surprise

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Artist: Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, Heilbronn 1751–1818 Vienna)
Date: ca. 1801
Medium: Brush and gray ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper
Dimensions: sheet: 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (46.3 x 35 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010
Accession no.: 2010.276

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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018423
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Heinrich Friedrich Füger
mid-18th–early 19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018424
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mid-18th–early 19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018425
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Heinrich Friedrich Füger
mid-18th–early 19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018426

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.