Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum
Date1908
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 7 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (18.7 × 22.2 cm)
sheet: 12 3/4 × 14 1/8 in. (32.4 × 35.9 cm)
sheet: 12 3/4 × 14 1/8 in. (32.4 × 35.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1998
Object number1998-163
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. Sloan's comic observations were influenced by the satirical cartoons of French artist Honoré Daumier.
Edwin Parry Upjohn
not dated
copy/copy
