Study of a Young Man, Seen from the Back. Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856-1925 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (31.5 × 24.4 cm). Date: 1895.In October 1895, Galerie Rapp in Paris organized one section of a large exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts that marked the hundredth anniversary of the invention of lithography by Aloys Senefelder. The British printer Frederick Goulding, who had developed an improved transfer paper for lithography, was involved in the show, and he encouraged Sargent and other London artists to participate, even offering to supply them with materials and print their work. Sargent eventually sent one print to the exhibition, after first creating a group of six, now rare and little-known, compositions. This transfer lithograph is likely his earliest, since its style and execution are closest to the artist's studio studies of the period. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.