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| Keywords: Alfred Jacob Miller - The Savoyard - Walters 371584.jpg Natives from Savoy emigrated to Paris where they frequently eked out a living as chimney sweeps or as itinerant musicians Miller executed a preliminary drawing of this subject in Paris in 1834 which he preserved in a scrapbook He presented this oil sketch to Jennie Walters 1853-1922 the daughter of his patron William T Walters The syntax in Jennie's letter of acknowledgment suggests that the gift was made after the Walters' return from Europe following the Civil War Miller repeated this theme in another sketch also in a family scrapbook showing Jean Valjean and a young Savoyard with a hurdy-gurdy characters taken from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables of 1862 century 19 oil cardboard cm 20 8 16 19 accession number 37 1584 10584 Jennie Walters Baltimore Henry Walters date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum date and mode of acquisition unknown Acquired by Henry Walters Alfred Jacob Miller An Artist on the Oregon Trail Alfred Jacob Miller Maryland and the West The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Frostburg State University Frostburg; Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington Rockville; Washington College Chestertown 1988 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D Alfred Jacob Miller An Artist on the Oregon Trail Savoyards Male musicians in art Paintings of men of France Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller in the Walters Art Museum 19th-century watercolor paintings in the United States | ||||
