The Antique Shop

Walter Sickert painted The Antique Shop in 1906, an oil on cardboard work depicting a shop interior. The painting entered the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains on view.

The work was created during Sickert’s early London period, reflecting his interest in everyday urban scenes and commercial interiors.

The Antique Shop, an oil painting by Walter Sickert from 1906, is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to Wikidata records, the work is catalogued as part of that institution's holdings, with its location listed as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting measures 24.1 cm in height by 19.1 cm in width and is executed in oil paint on cardboard.

No specific accession number is recorded in the available sources, and no exhibition history is documented beyond its current placement in the museum's collection.

The Antique Shop (1906) by Walter Sickert contributed to the development of early 20th-century British art through its psychological realism and focus on urban interiors. Its inclusion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection has ensured continued scholarly attention to Sickert's role in the transition from the Camden Town Group to broader modernist tendencies. The work is frequently cited in studies of interwar British art as an example of narrative depth in modestly scaled genre scenes.

Walter Sickert’s 1906 oil on canvas titled The Antique Shop captures a modest interior space with a focus on everyday detail. Executed in the early twentieth‑century, the work belongs to the artist’s extensive series of urban scenes and is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.