The Italian Boy with Hurdy-Gurdy

ca. 1853

71.4 cm 92.2 cm

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Young boys from the Savoy region of Italy who made their living as street musicians and chimney sweeps were popular subjects among European artists in the nineteenth century. They are often represented as ragged but sensual figures. In Woodville's painting, a young boy in worn...

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George C. Doub, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1982.
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