Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum, First State

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© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum, First State
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum, First State

Date1908
Artist (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)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-36
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
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.