Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum
Date1908
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 7 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (18.4 × 22.2 cm)
sheet: 10 13/16 × 13 5/16 in. (27.5 × 33.8 cm)
sheet: 10 13/16 × 13 5/16 in. (27.5 × 33.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.77
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis print lampoons the art world, as most of the museum visitors appear more interested in the attractive young copyist than the works of art on display. In the left foreground, Sloan and his wife walk away from the scene, but not without a backward glance.
Edwin Parry Upjohn
not dated
copy/copy
