Boy’s Fishing, Venice
Boy’s Fishing, Venice
Description
There is some small question as to the date of the work. Millet was in Italy 1874-1875, following graduation from the Royal Academy. So this site is placing a circa 1874-1875 date on the work, pending further scholarship.
Exhibitions
1878, First Annual Exhibition of the American Art Association, Society of American Artists, Catalogue no. 123 2010, Broadway Arts Festival 2010: A Celebration of the work of John Singer Sargent RA and the Broadway Colony. Image pg. 25 The catalogue places a circa 1878 date on the painting based on the first showing.
Provenance
In the family collection
Literature
Gina M. D’Angelo, Francis Davis Millet – The Early Years of a” A Cosmopolitan Yankee,” 1846-1884, Doctoral Dissertation, The City University of New York, pg. 362 D’Angelo places a circa 1875 date on the work.