| The Young Sabot Maker | |
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| Artist | Henry Ossawa Tanner |
| Year | 1895 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Movement | genre, French academic |
| Dimensions | 120.3 cm × 89.9 cm (47.4 in × 35.4 in) |
| Location | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
The Young Sabot Maker is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1895.[1] The painting was accepted for the 1895 Paris Salon and was Tanner's second Salon-entered painting.[2][3]
The painting follows a theme Tanner used for his genre paintings, "age instructing youth", which can also be seen in The Bagpipe Lesson and The Banjo Lesson.[3] The painting depicts an older man proudly watching a boy push with his weight against the crossbar handle of an auger to carve a sabot, or wooden shoe. The two figures stand within the sabot maker's workshop, wood shavings scattered around them on the floor.
Measuring 47 3/8 x 35 3/8 inches (120.3 x 89.9 cm), the painting was purchased by a combination of donor sponsors and given to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1995.[1]
- ^ a b "The Young Sabot Maker". The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ "Study for the Young Sabot Maker". Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- ^ a b Mosby, Dewey F. (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Museum of Art. pp. 128–131.