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| Keywords: Field, Erastus Salisbury, Josiah B. Woods Jr., ca. 1838.jpg Artwork Creator Erastus Salisbury Field Although unsigned this impressive and possibly posthumous portrait the sitter died in 1838 at age 5 is attributable to Field on stylistic grounds The lively palette and the subject ™s blunt hands and pointy ears are hallmarks of the artist ™s early work Moreover the distinctive patterned carpet and the boy ™s pose attire and whittling implements are repeated in the leftmost figure in Field ™s masterwork Joseph B Moore and Family of similar date While the parapet column and red drapery can also be found in other Field portraits the distinctive background vista may allude to the view from the Woods family residence in Enfield Massachusetts overlooking the Swift River a site subsumed a century later in the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir ~ 1838 Oil on linen Size cm 129 5 81 9 <br> frame Size cm 149 102 2 Institution Princeton University Art Museum object history exhibition history credit line Gift of Christine Woods Kitto accession number 2014-89 place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1900 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd cite web Josiah B Woods Jr 2014-89 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/107800 Princeton University Art Museum American art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1838 American paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1838 American Portraits in the Princeton University Art Museum 1838 Portraits in the Princeton University Art Museum 1838 Portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1838 19th-century portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1838 Erastus Salisbury Field | ||||
