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Italian Boy with a Marmot
MÜLLER, William James (1812 - 1845)
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Date: 1836
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 74.0 x 53.0 cm
Acquired: Gift; Sir Henry Webb
Accession Number: NMW A 419
One of a series of genre pictures of Italian street musicians and vendors painted after the artist's return from Italy. The boy has a wooden hutch strapped to his chest and holds the guinea-pig in one hand as he extends the other towards the spectator for payment. The reverse of the canvas is painted with a river landscape which probably dates from the 1840s.
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