"Youth is full of sport
Age's breath is short" '77
Age's breath is short" '77
oil on canvas
Exhibited RA 1877
Price Realized £11,250 (2009)
London, Royal Academy, 1877
The Art Journal (op. cit.) described the present work as a 'closely studied bit of nature', showing 'a merry group of children playing in a field of wild flowers, while, by way of contrast, a poor old woman in the foreground drags wearily behind her for firewood a great withered tree-branch'.
F.G. Stephens in the Athenaeum (op. cit.) was also complimentary declaring himself 'charmed' by such a 'capital and tasteful work'.
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