Title: Monks in the Desert
Object type: Print
Date: 1797
Artist:  Jean Jacques de Boissieu 
Artist bio: French, Lyons 1736–1810 Lyons
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching with drypoint and roulette; fourth state of six
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 12 1/8 in. (44 x 30.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Reading, term: Monks