Keywords: Jacques-Laurent Agasse - The hard word.jpg Artwork Creator Jacques Laurent Agasse The model for the child was Lionel Booth the eldest son of George Booth from whom Agasse took lodgings in 1810 between 1810 1821 oil canvas cm 61 50 8 object history Provenance Possibly George Pitt 2nd Baron Rivers 1751-1828 <br/>Caroline Scott by whom given to Georgina Sarah Follett November 1887 according to an inscription on the stretcher credit line A study in black chalk for šThe Hard Word ˜ is in the Cabinet des Dessins Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Geneva accession number christies online 5103749 http //images1 bonhams com/image src Images/live/2003-04/22/4075516-1-2 jpg PD-old-100 Jacques Laurent Agasse 19th-century genre paintings Portrait paintings of boys Reading boys 19th-century portrait paintings People with cats in art Tabby cats in art |