"Thrilling news, sweetie! The National Gallery's entire collection of Velázquez is now attributed to you." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
267229
Accession number: 
MA 12309
Author: 
Handelsman, J. B.
Published: 
1988.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, 2006.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Oct. 3, 1988.

Summary: 

Woman speaks to a man at an easel painting a copy of "The Arnolfini Wedding" by Van Eyck, in his studio full of art forgeries; two severe men in suits and hats stand in the open doorway.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with porous pointed pen and blue watercolor pencil with correction fluid, on paper.
Dimensions: 
250 x 328 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden.
Classification: