Shown from the chest up with his body and head facing us, a pale-skinned young man cuts his light-brown eyes sharply to our right in this vertical portrait painting. His slightly wild, copper-brown hair puffs around his ears and tendrils curl on his forehead. His cheeks are flushed vivid pink. His full, pink lips are closed, and he has a cleft in his rounded chin. Some darker strokes around his mouth could be a goatee. He is lit from our right, and light shines brightly on a sliver of white at the neckline of his coffee bean-brown, high-necked garment. His clothing and hair blend into the…
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Head of a Young Man

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

c. 1617/1618

Medium
oil on paper on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 51.2 x 41.4 cm (20 3/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Adolph Caspar Miller
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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