Violette's Suicide Prevented by Chicotin
Date1904
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationThe Flower Girl, Volume II, by Charles Paul de Kock (Boston: Frederick J. Quinby Co., 1905).
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 5 11/16 × 4 3/16 in. (14.4 × 10.6 cm)
sheet: 8 13/16 × 5 3/4 in. (22.4 × 14.6 cm)
sheet: 8 13/16 × 5 3/4 in. (22.4 × 14.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-137
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextUnlike many ambitious artists of his generation (and most of his friends), John Sloan never traveled to Europe. In order to accurately capture settings, like the background of this etching, Sloan studied maps and images of Paris from the early and mid-19th century, when Charles Paul de Kock's stories unfolded.
