Art Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris
published January 11, 1868
Medium
Wood engraving on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23 × 34.9 cm (9 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26.9 × 40 cm (10 5/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
wood engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
158293
Art Historical Context
Step into the grand halls of the Louvre through Winslow Homer's *Art Students and Copyists in Louvre Gallery, Paris*, lively wood engraving published in *Harper's Weekly* on 11, 1868. Created during Homer's 1867 visit to Paris for the Exposition Universelle, this captures aspiring artists—many likely American students—meticulously copying masterpieces amid the museum's opulent galleries. Homer, an emerging Realist known for his keen observation of everyday life, sketched these figures on-site, reflecting the era's transatlantic cultural exchange as young talents flocked to France to study Old ...
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...