[unattributed]
Likely American
Portrait of a young child, ca.1880s
Oil on canvas mounted board
14 x 11 inches [unframed]
Unsigned.
CONDITION:
Good original condition.
DESCRIPTION:
A mid to late 19th-century portrait of a child.  One of the images has been manipulated to help see the signatures and date.
PROVENANCE:
2021 ( David Smernoff, New Haven, CT & New York, NY ) ;
after ca.1880s Private collection of [unknown] ;
ca.1880s [unattributed], the artist .
EXHIBITION:
[none] ;


![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1757-250x250.png) 
		![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1754-250x250.jpg) 
		![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1755-250x250.jpg) 
		![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1756-250x250.jpg) 
		![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1757-1-250x250.jpg) 
		![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1757-250x250.jpg) 
		![[unattributed] : <i>Portrait of a young child</i>, ca.1880s.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1757-1-1-250x250.jpg) 
		![Pierre-Joseph Toussaint [1822-1888] Belgian painter : <i>Midday drink</i>, 1867.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Pierre-Joseph-Coussaint-Child-drinking-1-thegem-product-justified-portrait-s.png) 
		![Pierre-Joseph Toussaint [1822-1888] Belgian painter : <i>Midday drink</i>, 1867.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3579BE28-2A0D-4527-B882-9C9DA5EBE714-scaled-1-thegem-product-justified-portrait-s.jpeg) 
		![Daniel Maffia [1937- ]  French illustrator  “Honore de Balzac” and “The Contemporary” circa 1960](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/100_1410-1024x1024-1-thegem-product-justified-portrait-s.png) 
		![Daniel Maffia [1937- ]  French illustrator  “Honore de Balzac” and “The Contemporary” circa 1960](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/100_1411-thegem-product-justified-portrait-s.png) 
		![[unattributed] American school : <i>Roam (Rome) in dreamland; wake up in grease (Greece)</i>, ca.1860.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_00531-thegem-product-justified-portrait-s.png) 
		![[unattributed] American school : <i>Roam (Rome) in dreamland; wake up in grease (Greece)</i>, ca.1860.](https://davidsmernoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/242200C7-60FC-47D3-9512-62C375B28566-scaled-1-thegem-product-justified-portrait-s.jpeg) 
		 
		