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Friedrich Preller the Elder

Centaurs at a Pond

1824–78
Pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown ink, black chalk
39.2 × 44.4 cm (15.4 × 17.5 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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