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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
Description / Remarks
Evening Post, February 16, 1865: "Eastman Johnson has recently finished an effective cabinet portrait of a young lad skating. The idea of motion is admirably conveyed, and the pose of the figure exceeding natural."
Provenance
Present whereabouts unknown
References
Evening Post 1865b
"A Visit to the Studios: What the Artists Are Doing." The Evening Post (New York), February 16, 1865, p. 1.Record last updated July 19, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Young Lad Skating, c.1865 (Hills no. 20.2.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=490 (accessed on May 5, 2024).