Sunday, March 25, 2007

A Horse and His Boy

Here is one of the charming treasures of the Yale Center for British Art: George Stubbs’s 1774 painting “Pumpkin with a Stable-Lad.”

Notably, in this portrait the horse has a name, the lad none. The boy does, however, have the decade’s fashionable mullet.

2 comments:

  1. So what do we call the horse's haircut??

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  2. Now that you mention it, Pumpkin's hair is short in front and cut longer in the back, too.

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