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Oil portrait of a smiling man in a wide-brimmed hat holding carved bone clappers, seated beside a wooden box.

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The Bone Player, William Sidney Mount (1856), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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The Bone Player, painted in 1856 by William Sidney Mount, shows a smiling man in a wide-brimmed hat and gray coat holding a pair of carved bone clappers raised near his shoulder. He wears a pink cravat and a striped yellow vest, and a wooden box and a glass sit at the edge of the interior setting. The painting is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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