Italian boy with a Marmot

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.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 419

Creation/Production

MÜLLER, William James

Date: 1836

Acquisition

Gift

Given by Sir H. Webb

Measurements

Height (cm): 74

Width (cm): 53

Height (in): 29

Width (in): 20

Techniques

canvas

Material

oil

Location

In store

Bronze Age Gold from Wales