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20.2 Boys Outdoors
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. 20.2.4
Boy Eating Apples
Alternate titles: possibly The Big Bite; Back from the Orchard; Boy Standing Eating an Apple
c.1876
Oil on board
10 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (27 x 16.2 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
Private collection
Provenance
Possibly Frederick Loeser, by 1890
Private collection, Pennsylvania
Private antiques dealer, Sarasota, Florida, by June 2004
[Vose Galleries, Boston, June 16, 2004]
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 9, 2004
Private collection, 2005 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1890 Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, November 1890–April 1891, no. 22, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].1891a Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, May–November 1891, no. 39, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].References
Douglass 1999
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 264 [possibly, as The Big Bite].Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2004-05-24
Examination notes: Typical grey-white background of the back of the board. Graphite line along his left hand on top. Also on left side of his right hand. Holds two apples. Eating green apple. Eyes look straight ahead.
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Record last updated October 21, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Boy Eating Apples, c.1876 (Hills no. 20.2.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=258 (accessed on May 3, 2024).