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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

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Hills no. 20.2.7
The Truant
Alternate title: possibly The Big Bite
c.1876
Oil on board
10 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (26.7 x 17.1 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Truant, c.1876 (Hills no. 20.2.7)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=260 (accessed on March 29, 2024).