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Maker(s):Champney, James Wells
Culture:American (1843-1903)
Title:Portrait of a Girl with an Apple
Date Made:1875
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Place Made:Massachusetts: Deerfield
Accession Number:  HD 2022.30.1
Credit Line:Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Portrait of a girl with apple also known as The Red Apple, by artist James Wells Champney (1843-1903), signed in lower left in red paint "CHAMP 75", gilt period frame. Size: 22 1/4" x 18-1/4". A young girl in a red skirt and black apron with a grey blouse and a white neckerchief sits upon the ground with a large woven basket strapped to her back, she sits in a green glade of trees, and offers an apple to an unseen person in the foreground. Condition: Extensive stable craquelure, loss to red pigment on girl's skirt, no evidence of retouching under ultraviolet light.

Tags:
portraits; trees; girls; harvesting

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