About the Artwork
Boy with a Flute
ca. 1820
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American
American
Oil on wood panel
Framed: 29 1/2 × 25 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (74.9 × 64.1 × 4.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
81.838
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Provenance
by 1948, dealer, Edwin D. Hewitt. Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler (Garbisch, New York, USA)
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, p. 257 (ill.).
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American, Boy with a Flute, ca. 1820, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 81.838.
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