DETAILS
- Artist
- Kenyon Cox
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white laid paper mounted on secondary support of Egyptian linen
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 14 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (37.8 x 50.5 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Francis Lathrop Fund, 1950
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THE ARTIST
Kenyon Cox
Kenyon Cox, an influential American painter and writer, championed traditional figurative art against the rising tide of modernism.
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