Old Jacob Van Kleek had never favored our hero's suit
Date1908
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The Mysterious Chest," by Howard Pyle, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1908
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
frame: 35 1/2 × 25 1/4 in. (90.2 × 64.1 cm)
frame: 35 1/2 × 25 1/4 in. (90.2 × 64.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-44
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn a story about late 18th-century New York, miserly Jacob Van Kleek eavesdrops on a romantic couple. He unhappily foresees his niece marrying a young man who practices law, not a lucrative profession in the old man's eyes.
