TitleThe Charitable Visit
Artist
Alfred Jones
(English, 1819 - 1900)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 10 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.
Framed: 14 1/2 × 12 × 1 1/2 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number676-P
Label TextJones devoted most of his artistic talents to engraving and only produced a few genre paintings during his career. The genre paintings were created in the late 1840s and early 1850s following a period of artistic study in Paris and London. The subject of this work is reminiscent of Charles Perrault's story of "Little Red Riding Hood," a popular subject in 19th-century genre painting.
