TitleCroquet Player
Artist
Winslow Homer
(American, 1836 - 1910)
Datec. 1865
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 8 1/8 × 12 1/8 in.
Framed: 13 11/16 × 17 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.
SignedSigned on verso, incised into top stretcher crossbar: "Winslow Homer / would like to have the / privilege of painting"; bottom stretcher crossbar: "[illegible] better picture".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 7, 1866
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number590-P
Label TextIn the 1860s Homer spent much of his summer time visiting his family's home in Belmont near Boston, and with a close-knit group of cousins and friends, enjoying the leisure-time pursuits of the era. Croquet had become the rage in America early in the decade, and doubtlessly Homer played as well as observed. Between 1865 and 1869 he executed five oil paintings representing this lawn game, using his friends as models. The Academy's painting is accepted as being the earliest in the series.Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
