TitleEn Loge
Artist
Kenyon Cox
(American, 1856 - 1919)
Date1880
MediumOil on canvas mounted on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 16 × 12 7/8 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "En loge - 15 Mars - 1880"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Allyn Cox, Caroline Cox Lansing, and Leonard Cox, 1959
Object number1616.3-P
Label TextCox depicts a chamber that held the "loges," or private alcoves where students worked on the examination pieces that determined prizes and placement in the various studios of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. A quite similar view by Alexis Lemaistre of what appears to be the same room was engraved for his book L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts dessinée et racontée par un élève (Paris, 1889).Ten days before executing this loose oil sketch, Cox wrote his mother about the coming contest: "Next week is to be the concours of the school and I think I am justified in expecting a much better place than last time." In fact, he placed eleventh in the Concours d'Atelier, a ranking that disappointed him.
