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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 571386, member: 33"]Other possible sources of inspiration. Note that none of them includes a trumpet..</p><p><br /></p><p>The Blue Boy painting by Gainsborough has the collar.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173246[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This painting by Goya has a similar sash (somewhat different with a bow), but the collar is a different style:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173247[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And there was the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" craze of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when lots of little boys (and some girls, especially actresses as at the right) were dressed in outfits like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173248[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The inspiration for the piece could have been any of these, or none of them in particular. If he is not supposed to be Little Boy Blue maybe the company who made it had some other idea in mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 571386, member: 33"]Other possible sources of inspiration. Note that none of them includes a trumpet.. The Blue Boy painting by Gainsborough has the collar. [ATTACH=full]173246[/ATTACH] This painting by Goya has a similar sash (somewhat different with a bow), but the collar is a different style: [ATTACH=full]173247[/ATTACH] And there was the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" craze of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when lots of little boys (and some girls, especially actresses as at the right) were dressed in outfits like this: [ATTACH=full]173248[/ATTACH] The inspiration for the piece could have been any of these, or none of them in particular. If he is not supposed to be Little Boy Blue maybe the company who made it had some other idea in mind.[/QUOTE]
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