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Conservation Status: After Treatment
Young Beggars
Conservation Status: After Treatment

Young Beggars

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860)
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions27 x 33.3 cm (10 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball
Accession number23.508
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceThomas Wigglesworth (b. 1814 - d. about 1906 or 1907), Boston; by descent to his niece, Jane Norton (Mrs. Henry S.) Grew (b. 1836); sold by Mrs. Grew to Vose Galleries, Boston; February 21, 1905, sold by Vose Galleries to Clara Bertram Kimball (b. 1838 - d. 1920), Boston; by inheritance to her husband, David P. Kimball (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Boston; 1923, bequest of David P. Kimball to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] In 1923 David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."