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Beggar Boy
Attributed to
Jeaurat, Étienne
(Painter)
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 14.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1816)
by
Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
With no. 332, its pair, formerly attributed to Jean Baptiste Greuze, and also catalogued as 'French School, first half of the Eighteenth Century'.
Support composed of panel (wood)
Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel
Inscription present: octagonal label
Accession number: 318
Primary reference Number: 2730
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Beggar Boy"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/2730 Accessed: 2022-05-21 17:45:38
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Accession Number: C.349-1928
Accession Number: 30.I.3-21
Accession Number: 332
Accession Number: PD.418-1995
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