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Sculptor's Studio

Louis Moeller American
probably 1880s
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 764
The many late nineteenth-century representations of studios reflected an increase in artists’ strategic self-fashioning and in patrons’ curiosity about their lives. American sculptors of the period collected prints, photographs, statuettes, and plaster casts for reference in making their own works. The unidentified sculptor whose studio Moeller portrayed here has gathered, among varied possessions, well-known casts after renowned antiquities, including the dying lioness from the Assyrian series of Ashurbanipal’s lion hunt (on the back wall) and a section of the north frieze of the Parthenon (above the door).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Sculptor's Studio
  • Artist: Louis Moeller (1855–1930)
  • Date: probably 1880s
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 23 x 30 in. (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Bertram F. and Susie Brummer Foundation Inc. Gift, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.70
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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