Figure 1.--Carl Maria Hummel painte this unidentified German boy, pobably from Weimar, in 1842. He wears a low-cut collarless pink tunic with white pantalettes that have evolved into pants. He is laying with a great stick horse and whip. Hummel wasknown as a landscape artist -- notice the landscape in the background.

Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel was born in Weimar (1821). He had very accomplished parents, highly regrded by the artistic community. His father was the son of Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and the opera singer Elisabeth Röckel. His forml studies as an artist began only as a young adult. He began to study under Friedrich Preller at the Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weima (1841)r. After finishing his studies, he went on study trips to England, Norway, Rügen and the Tyrol, he had prolonged stays in Italy and Sicily (until 1846). He rerturned and began working an artist in Weimar. Hummel is primaryly known as a landscape artist and etcher. His body of work consists largely of lanscpe depictions of the Italian and Tyrolean Alps. We also see a few potraits. An example is the unidentified boy here in a pink tunic dne with black trim. His paitings are widely displayed at museums throughout Northern Europe, including the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris. We do also notice a few portraits. One of an unidentified boy wearing a pink tunic (figure 1). He was appointed a professor at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School (1860). He had a long life, but we have found very little biographical information on him. He died we think in Weimar (1907).

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