Artwork Details
- Title
- Boy in Peasant Costume
- Artist
- Date
- 1907
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 3 3⁄4 x 2 7⁄8 in. (9.5 x 7.3 cm) rectangle
- Credit Line
- Adams-Clement Collection, gift of Mary Louisa Adams Clement in memory of her mother, Louisa Catherine Adams Clement
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Keywords
- Portrait male — unidentified — child
- Portrait male — unidentified — waist length
- Object Number
- 1950.6.13
Artwork Description
Scenes of country life were popular at the turn of the century, and this painting shows a young boy in raffish clothes carrying a bundle of sticks. Wealthy Americans often displayed images of wholesome peasants as a way to establish and reinforce the class differences of the time.