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Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
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. 20.1.9
Baur no. 95
The Early Scholar
c.1865
Oil on academy board on canvas
17 x 21 1/8 in. (43.2 x 53.7 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
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Record last updated February 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Early Scholar, c.1865 (Hills no. 20.1.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=248 (accessed on March 28, 2024).