The painting depicts four boys, sitting or leaning against boxes, a wooden platform, and a stone wall. The boy on the left is sitting on the wooden platform, leaning back with his legs crossed, and wearing a blue shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed hat. Next to him, standing on the same platform and sitting on stacked boxes, are two of the other boys. One of these boys is wearing light-colored trousers and a buttoned-up vest underneath a light-colored jacket. The other boy stands slightly behind him, dressed in a red shirt, a dark vest, and a dark jacket, with a brown hat. The last boy,…
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Negro Boys on the Quayside

painter David Norslup (American, active c. 1865)

c. 1865

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 40.32 × 49.53 cm (15 7/8 × 19 1/2 in.) ; framed: 40.64 × 48.9 × 4.45 cm (16 × 19 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and William A. Clark Fund, 1960)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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