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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. 

Publications:

Francis Davis Millet