Painting · Master copy

Man with the Cat (master copy)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Painted by

Jack Xie

After

Cecilia Beaux, Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), 1898

Original

Smithsonian American Art Museum

A master copy of Cecilia Beaux's portrait of her brother-in-law, Henry Sturgis Drinker, relaxed in a linen suit with an orange cat asleep in his lap.

Painting a copy means working through another artist's decisions stroke by stroke. Beaux, one of the leading American portraitists of her time, was often compared to John Singer Sargent.

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