Boy’s Fishing, Venice
Date: circa 1874-1875
Dimensions: Height: 76.2 cm (30 in.), Width: 91.44 cm (36 in.)
Medium: Painting – oil on canvas
Owner/Location: Private Family Collection
Description
There is some small question as to the date of the work. Millet was in Italy 1874-1875, following graduation from the Royal Academy. So this site is placing a circa 1874-1875 date on the work, pending further scholarship.
Exhibitions / Provenance
Exhibitions:
1878, First Annual Exhibition of the American Art Association, Society of American Artists, Catalogue no. 123
2010, Broadway Arts Festival 2010: A Celebration of the work of John Singer Sargent RA and the Broadway Colony. Image pg. 25 The catalogue places a circa 1878 date on the painting based on the first showing.
Provenance: In the family collection
Research / Publications
Research:
Gina M. D’Angelo, Francis Davis Millet – The Early Years of a” A Cosmopolitan Yankee,” 1846-1884, Doctoral Dissertation, The City University of New York, pg. 362 D’Angelo places a circa 1875 date on the work.
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