Bringing the Wanderer Home, (painting).

Bringing the Wanderer Home, (painting).

Selinger, Jean Paul, 1850-1909, painter.

Bringing the Wanderer Home, (painting).

A young Dutch girl wearing wooden shoes stands on a dirt road, her arms wrapped around a large black cat with white paws.

Landscape -- Road

Figure female -- Child

Ethnic -- Dutch

Field, Bette, Mrs.,

The painting won the $1,000 Osborne Prize at a New York exhibition held in 1904. The Osborne prize was awarded in a contest for suitable calendar subjects. In 1906 the painting was exhibited at the Boston Art Club. The model for the painting was the artist's niece, Dorothea Selinger, who posed for the painting holding a pillow.

Historical New Hamshire 34 (Summer 1979): pg. 125-139.

Historical New Hamshire 34 (Summer 1979): pg. 136.

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