Study for "The Story of a Seamstress": Sewing Machine

1908

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (23.8 x 16.5 cm)
Collection no.: 1990.38.8
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Umberto Boccioni. Study for "The Story of a Seamstress": Sewing Machine. Umberto Boccioni; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study for "The Story of a Seamstress": Sewing Machine — Umberto Boccioni. 1908.

Medium: Graphite on paper. Dimensions: 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (23.8 x 16.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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