The Cobbler's Apprentice

The Cobbler's Apprentice is a painting by the American painter Frank Duveneck, painted in 1877.[1] It hangs in the Taft Museum of Art of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.[2] The oil on canvas portrait measures 38.5 by 26.75 inches (978 mm × 679 mm) and it is signed by the artist.[3][4]

Duveneck painted The Cobbler's Apprentice in Munich, Germany, where at the time he was regarded as a leading American artist.[3][5]

Description

The subject of The Cobbler's Apprentice is a boy, shown three-quarters-length, and turned three quarters to the right. He is holding a large basket to his right side while he blows smoke from a cigar held in his left hand.[3]

Provenance

The painting was sold in Munich for $25 to one Mr. von Hessling, the American Vice Consul, was for a time owned by Mr. Joseph Stransky of New York, and was finally acquired into the collection of Mr. Charles Phelps Taft.[6][7]

The painting was parodied in the 2011 mural The Cobbler's Apprentice Plays Ball on The Banks near the Great American Ball Park.[8] Instead of holding a cigar and a basket of vegetables, the boy now appears holding a baseball bat.[9]

References
  1. "The Cobbler's Apprentice". The Athenaeum. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  2. "Frank Duveneck's "The Cobbler's Apprentice"". Ohio Historical Society. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  3. Charles Phelps Taft; Maurice Walter Brockwell (1920). A Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft at Cincinnati, Ohio. Priv. print. p. 192.
  4. "The Cobbler's Apprentice". Taft Museum of Art. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  5. Mary Sayre Haverstock; Jeannette Mahoney Vance; Brian L. Meggitt (2000). Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary. Kent State University Press. p. 250. ISBN 9780873386166.
  6. Heermann, Norbert (1918). Frank Duveneck. Houghton Mifflin. p. 52.
  7. Art and Archaeology, Volume 8. Archaeological Institute of America. 1919. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  8. "The Cobbler's Apprentice Plays Ball". Downtown Cincinnati Inc. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  9. Demaline, Jackie (Sep 19, 2011). "Mural at Banks goes to bat for Duveneck". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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