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The Young Sabot Maker is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1895. The painting was accepted for the 1895 Paris Salon and was Tanner's second Salon-entered painting.The painting follows a theme Tanner used for his genre paintings,  "age instructing youth", which can also be seen in The Bagpipe Lesson and The Banjo Lesson. The painting depicts an older man proudly watching a boy push with his weight against the crossbar handle of an auger to carve a sabot, or wooden shoe.  The two figures stand within the sabot maker's workshop, wood shavings scattered around them on the floor.
Measuring 47 3/8 x 35 3/8 inches (120.3 x 89.9 cm), the painting was purchased by a combination of donor sponsors and given to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1995.
The Banjo Lesson Paris Salon Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art genre painting genre Henry Ossawa Tanner sabot The Bagpipe Lesson