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20.1 Boys Indoors
Young boys have been a traditional staples of genre painting. To patrons of art during the mid-nineteenth century these youths recalled memories of their own growing years in which innocence was becoming more and more modified by mischievous cunning. —PH
Hills no. 20.1.3
Little Boy
Alternate title: Gloucester Boy
c.1860–69
Oil on canvas board
14 x 7 3/4 in. (35.6 x 19.7 cm)
Signed lower left: E. Johnson
Provenance
Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
Victor D. Spark, New York
Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1948
Duchesse de Richelieu, 1960 (by purchase)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1948 Wildenstein & Co.
Wildenstein & Co, New York, Eastman Johnson, Summer 1948. (Wildenstein 1948), no. 11, [likely, as Gloucester Boy].References
Wildenstein 1948
Eastman Johnson. New York: Wildenstein, 1948. Exhibition catalogue (1948 Wildenstein & Co.), n.p., no. 11 [likely, as Gloucester Boy].Related work
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Record last updated July 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Little Boy, c.1860–69 (Hills no. 20.1.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1261 (accessed on May 5, 2024).