Figure 1.--This portrait was executed in 1934. The boy seems to be wearing a Short pants version of a Fauntleroy suit. The 1930s seems to be at the end of the Fauntleroy era, at least in Europe. This one had a lace collar and was done in burgandy velvet. We have seen similar outdits for boys in affluent German families. The outfit clearly signals a boy from a very well to do family, consistent with a family that could afford a portrait from an established artist. This boy's outfit also includes white knee socks and black partent leather strap shoes. Some great period toys are pictured in the portrait. Notice that while the toys are very realistically done, the background is nothing like the home in which the boy may have lived--the Rome Novecento influence.

Béla Kontuly executed this portrait of an unidentified Hungarian boy in 1934. The boy seems to be wearing a Short pants version of a Fauntleroy suit. The 1930s seems to be at the end of the Fauntleroy era, at least in Europe. This one had a lace collar and was done in burgandy velvet. We have seen similar outdits for boys in affluent German families. The outfit clearly signals a boy from a very well to do family, consistent with a family that could afford a portrait from an established artist. This boy's outfit also includes white knee socks and black partent leather strap shoes. Some great period toys are pictured in the portrait. Notice that while the toys are very realistically done, the background is nothing like the home in which the boy may have lived--the Rome Novecento influence. A reader writes, "I think the toy are the boy's that he brought for the painting. Most are wooded play things." This may be case. There seem to be a lot of toys of the appropriate age for somome who only did a few portraits of chiddren.

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