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Young Cook Caressing A Dead Bird
Enoch Wood Perry Jr.1859
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Perry trained in Europe, initially under Emmanuel Leutze in Düsseldorf, Germany, and then with Thomas Couture in Paris. Before opening a studio in New York in 1866, he traveled extensively and for a time served as United States Consul in Venice.
This drawing was made during an 1858-1862 stay in the United States and records a typical kitchen interior in mid 19th-century America. The sentimental young cook strokes the soft feathers of a bird. The bird's eye is open, unlike the eyes of the birds placed on the table. Is the young girl bidding the bird farewell before she has to kill it?
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Details
- Title: Young Cook Caressing A Dead Bird
- Creator: Enoch Wood Perry (American, 1831-1915)
- Date Created: 1859
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Enoch Wood Perry (American, 1831-1915)
- Provenance: William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: drawings
- Medium: pencil and wash on paper
- Inscriptions: [Signed and dated] Lower right: E.W. Perry jr 1859
- Exhibitions: Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995., Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994.
- Dimensions: H: 10 1/2 x W: 4 11/16 in. (26.6 x 11.9 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.1543
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