Unidentified
Boy in a Landscape
可否一睹真容？
可以，正在迎客
正对公众展出。由谁担保，见下文。
- 核实
- 此状态始于
- 出处
- 博物馆
关于这幅画
A confident pose marks this young sitter as a fearless boy who is comfortable in the out-of-doors. In mid-nineteenth-century America, society expected different things from boys and girls. Childhood was seen as an important stage in life when girls were encouraged to learn lessons of self-sacrifice and service, while boys were urged to be daring and aggressive. Contemporary books and images portrayed the American boy as fun-loving and independent. After the Civil War, the image of healthy, happy children became even more important to a nation shaken by the loss of its own innocence and confidence (Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, 2004; Clapper, “I Was Once a Barefoot Boy!”: Cultural Tensions in a Popular Chromo,” American Art, Summer 2002).
史密森尼美國藝術博物館
作品信息
- 馆藏编号
- 1973.152.1
