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Old Man and a Child

(Italian (Neapolitan), about 1722–1769)
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions73.7 x 61.9 cm (29 x 24 3/8 in.)
Credit LineSeth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession number52.392
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceLeila Cowper-Cooper, London [see note 1]. By 1951, art market, London; by 1951, purchased by Colnaghi, London [see note 2]; 1952, sold by Colnaghi to the MFA for £320. (Accession date: April 10, 1952)

NOTES:
[1] This information comes from notes on a stretcher bar on the back of the painting. [2] Letter from James Byam Shaw, Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London, to W.G. Constable, MFA (December 21, 1951) in curatorial file.
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