Aesthetic Pleasure
Date1932
Artist
Peggy Bacon
(American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 9 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. (24.8 × 38.7 cm)
sheet: 14 × 19 1/4 in. (35.6 × 48.9 cm)
sheet: 14 × 19 1/4 in. (35.6 × 48.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1988-28
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBacon depicted the familiar denizens of an art museum (in this case the Pitti Palace in Florence): a guided tour with a docent, a copyist, a connoisseur, and readers of guidebooks and maps.