This round portrait painting shows the head, face, and the top of the shoulders of a young, blond boy with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks, facing our right in profile against a tan background. Light comes from behind us and to our left, so the boy’s cheek, jawline, and ear are brightly lit as he looks straight ahead, to our left. He has long, dark eyelashes, a turned-up nose, and his full, coral-pink lips are closed. The cheek we see is deeply flushed along the curve, near the nose and mouth. His short, light brown hair is highlighted with gold strands where it catches the light. A…
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Young Boy in Profile

painter Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609 - 1660)

c. 1630

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
diameter: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.) ; framed: 35.24 × 35.08 × 4.45 cm (13 7/8 × 13 13/16 × 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Thomas M. Evans
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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