Apr 18, 2024 - Sale 2666

Sale 2666 - Lot 279

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JOHN SLOAN
Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum.

Etching printed in dark brownish black, 1908. 191x227 mm; 7½x9 inches, full margins. Eighth state (of 8). Edition of 75 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good, well-inked impression with strong contrasts.

A bespectacled Sloan (1871-1951) and his wife, Dolly, are pictured standing in the lower left of the image observing a female artist working on a copy of a Barbizon School painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Morse 148.