Little Red Riding Hood (Miss Eulalie Hockaday)

Artist George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811 - 1879)

Date1878-1879

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 49 1/2 × 37 1/2 inches (125.73 × 95.25 cm)
Framed: 55 × 43 × 2 1/2 inches (139.7 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm)

Credit LineGiven in honor of Hugh and Eulalie Zimmer by their grandchildren

Object number2020.10

On View

On view

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DescriptionThis full-length portrait depicts a young girl in the guise of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood posed pausing on a winding path in a woods. As she looks directly out at the viewer, a wolf in the middle ground near the center of the left edge of the composition gazes at her. The girl is dressed in a short red hooded cap, which she clutches with her proper left hand at the neck, over a blue dress. White bloomers peek from below the hem of her knee-length dress and are worn over her red-and-white striped stockings. Her face is framed with dark brown ringlets. In her proper right hand, she carries a bundle wrapped in a light-colored cloth—presumably the treats Little Red Riding Hood ventured into the woods to deliver to her grandmother before encountering the Big Bad Wolf in her grandmother’s bed.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

1953: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (no. 142)

1965: The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Privately Owned in the Greater Kansas Area (no. 6)

Provenance

Commissioned by Major James S. Rollins (grandfather of the sitter);

to the sitter Miss Eulalie Hockaday;

by descent to niece Eulalia Hockaday (Mrs. Jerome Bartlett) of Kansas City;

by descent to great-grandniece of the sitter Eulalie Hockaday Bartlett (Mrs. Hugh Zimmer), Shawnee, Mission, Kansas;

by descent to her grandchildren (Emily Darling, Lauren Zimmer Noel, Albert Curran Darling, and Katherine Parker Zimmer)

by whom the painting is presented to the Nelson-Atkins as a gift in honor of their grandparents, Hugh and Eulalie Zimmer, 2020.

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