Emanuel Gottlieb LeutzeVerenigde Staten, 1816–1868Bird Nesting
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Washington D.C., Verenigde Staten
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Over het schilderij
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze spent his early career as an itinerant portraitist in Maryland and Virginia. He painted this scene of a young boy while he was experimenting with portraiture, and the boy’s pose allowed the artist to show various angles of the body. Images of children at play were popular in the 1830s, when childhood seemed to be an increasingly fleeting time of life. Three years before Leutze painted this scene, the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville announced that “in America there is, in truth, no adolescence. At the close of boyhood [the young American] is a man and begins to trace out his own path.” (Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, 2004)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- 1981.51
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Afbeelding: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
