TitlePull Up the Hill
Date1858
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 13 × 16 1/8 in.
Framed: 23 3/8 × 26 3/8 × 4 in.
SignedSigned: ***
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number800-P
Label TextThis work was created well before French painter Evariste Vital Luminais gained his august reputation as a master artist, and undoubtedly appealed to Suydam for its evocation of youthful enjoyment rather than the fame of its maker. "Pull Up the Hill" depicts a group of boys dragging, wrestling, and pushing a cart and its girl driver up a steep path, striking a note of sweet innocence and youthful chivalry.
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