Sujet
Old Pat, The Independent Beggar, c. 1819. Creator: Samuel Lovett Waldo (American, 1783-1861).
Légende
Old Pat, The Independent Beggar, c. 1819. With this study of a disheveled person?perhaps a man named Patrick MacGregor?the popular society portraitist Samuel Waldo challenged assumptions that successful New Yorkers may have made about their city's prosperity. Waldo sold many copies of an engraving portraying "Old Pat" and made a finished portrait of him called The Beggar's Dessert that included a meager bone and bowl as attributes. In this painting, the sitter's gaunt, careworn features suggest considering him in sympathetic terms, yet his forceful gaze presents him as someone who cannot easily be made into an object of pity.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F67_252
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
44,8Mo (3,3Mo) / 29,2cm x 38,3cm / 3454 x 4529 (300dpi)