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The image shows a sketch of a boy standing with his hands behind his back and facing forward. He has a wide smile, round face, dark tousled hair, and is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, knee-length pants with a patched knee, and no shoes. The background is textured, and on the left side, "A BOY" is written vertically. The artist's signature, J. Wells Champney, is at the bottom of the image.
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The image shows a sketch of a boy standing with his hands behind his back and facing forward. He has a wide smile, round face, dark tousled hair, and is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, knee-length pants with a patched knee, and no shoes. The background is textured, and on the left side, "A BOY" is written vertically. The artist's signature, J. Wells Champney, is at the bottom of the image.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Boy

James Wells Champney

Date
1882
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 16.19 × 10.16 cm (6 3/8 × 4 in.) plate: 16.99 × 11.11 cm (6 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 32.86 × 22.54 cm (12 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.3617
Credit line
Corcoran Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • figure
  • Child
  • Figure
  • Boy
Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

upper left in plate: A Boy; lower left in graphite: J. Wells Champney

NGA object ID 181541. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.