Raid on the Museum (Mona Lisa) (for The Christian Science Monitor)

Emil Weiss American, born Moravia

1963

Not on view

This is one of a group of designs for cartoons published in the Chrisitan Science Monitor that relate to the exhibition of the Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Museum between February 7 and March 4, 1963. The famous painting was lent to the United States by the government of the French Republic, arriving in January at the National Gallery, Washington DC. Record-breaking crowds greeted it in New York, with visitors willing to wait in line for hours along Fifth Avenue. Here, an enormous crowd surges up the steps to the museum with cars visible in the foreground.

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Title: Raid on the Museum (Mona Lisa) (for The Christian Science Monitor)
Artist: Emil Weiss (American (born Moravia), Olomouc 1896–1965 New York)
Date: 1963
Medium: Pen and ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 14 × 11 7/16 in. (35.6 × 29.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Emil Weiss, 1963
Object Number: 63.534.4
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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