Signorina Cherubino
Date1916
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions23 1/4 × 19 1/4 in. (59.1 × 48.9 cm)
frame: 29 3/4 × 25 3/4 in. (75.6 × 65.4 cm)
frame: 29 3/4 × 25 3/4 in. (75.6 × 65.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1981
Object number1981-17
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe model for this canvas was a professional artist's model named Amelia Rose. Sloan took the title from the male part sung by a woman in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. This striking portrait was purchased by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney within a year of its completion, and it became part of the Whitney Museum Collection. However, it was traded back to Sloan for his portrait of the Greenwich Village restauranteur Romany Marie in 1951.
