Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum, First State
Date1908
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 7 1/2 × 9 in. (19.1 × 22.9 cm)
sheet: 10 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (27.8 × 40.3 cm)
sheet: 10 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (27.8 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-36
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan often struggled with images of himself and those closest to him. He would redraw his head (figure at foreground left), and that of his wife Dolly, multiple times before the final state of this print.