The Cobbler's Apprentice

[1] It hangs in the Taft Museum of Art of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

[3][4] Duveneck painted The Cobbler's Apprentice in Munich, Germany, where at the time he was regarded as a leading American artist.

[3][5] The subject of The Cobbler's Apprentice is a boy, shown three-quarters-length, and turned three quarters to the right.

He is holding a large basket to his right side while he blows smoke from a cigar held in his left hand.

[3] The painting was sold in Munich for $25 to one Mr. von Hessling, the American Vice Consul, was for a time owned by Mr. Joseph Stransky of New York, and was finally acquired into the collection of Mr. Charles Phelps Taft.