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Boy with a Rooster

Boy with a Rooster

Originally created abt. 1815 by an unknown artist in Pennsylvania, this decorative print is titled BOY WITH A ROOSTER.

The design of the boy's shock of hair is amusingly reversed and emphasized in the crisp outlining of the rooster's tail in this small bright watercolor from Pennsylvania. The full-length profile view is a pose favored by Pennsylvania German artists; in contradiction to the facts of life they endowed their rural subjects with tiny feet and narrow bodies so that costumes and profile heads might be dominant against diminutive pastoral landscapes. The artist is unknown but his style is distinctive, and numerous full-length portraits of Pennsylvania people are attributed to the same hand.

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