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Genre picture

Peasants Boys with a Tub 1888

Three young boys depicted full-length walking barefoot and wearing felt ‘bowler’ hats and traditional Hungarian herdsmen’s dress, two carrying a wooden tub between them, the third following behind with a hoe over his left shoulder and chewing on a twig or smoking a clay pipe

Pencil on paper, 27.5 x 20.3 cm (10 ⅞ x 8 in.)

Inscribed lower right:  László F /.888. / VII 

Inscribed verso: 183 [red chalk]; no 4 [black ink] 

Laib L5399 (364) / C31 (33) Three labourers carrying tub

Private Collection

This drawing is the earliest in a series of pictures depicting water-carrier children. Executed in the Hungarian countryside in 1888, during the period when the artist was a student at the Hungarian Royal Drawing School under Professor Károly Lotz.^[1] 

See also [9881] and [112075].

PROVENANCE:        

In the possession of the artist on his death

By descent in the family

LITERATURE:        

•Schleinitz, Otto von, Künstler Monographien Ph. A. v. LÁSZLÓ, Bielefed and Leipzig, Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1913, p. 8, ill. pl. 9

•Clifford, Derek, The Paintings of P. A. de Laszlo, London, 1969, ill. pl. 3

BS 2013