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Photo: Palmer Museum of Art
The Culprit, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.6). Verso
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Photo: Palmer Museum of Art
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

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Hills no. 20.1.6
The Culprit
Palmer Museum of Art of the Pennsylvania State University title: Little Boy on a Stool
Alternate titles: possibly Sulks; possibly The Sulky Boy; Boy in Corner
1861
Oil on canvas
12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (30.8 x 25.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/186[1 or 7] [Although the date in this inscription has been interpreted both ways, "1" is assumed to be correct based on the inscribed date of 1861 on Sulky Boy at School and Little Boy on a Stool, Johnson's other versions of this painting.]
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Record last updated September 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Culprit, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=240 (accessed on March 28, 2024).