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Boy with a Flintlock Rifle

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French

1817

Not on view

Children occupied an increasingly important place in Vigée Le Brun’s time, when the relative influence of nature and nurture was a subject of debate. The boy in this portrait is unidentified and could be eight or ten. He wears a gentleman’s coat or jacket and holds a sturdy functional gun, which could have been his own first weapon.

Boy with a Flintlock Rifle, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris), Oil on canvas — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Boy with a Flintlock Rifle

Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)

Date: 1817

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 21 × 17 3/4 in. (53.3 × 45.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay (1986.343)

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