The head and shoulders of a young, pale-skinned boy fill this oval portrait painting. His shoulders are angled to our right, but he turns his face to look at us out of the corners of his large, dark blue eyes. His round cheeks and nose are slightly flushed, and his full, pink lips are closed over a cleft chin. His wavy brown hair falls to his shoulders and around his high, lace-edged collar. The boy’s brown doublet has small buttons down the front, which falls open over a linen shirt. His sleeves are also slit almost up to the shoulders to reveal linen there, too. Light from high to our left…
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Head of a Young Boy

Attributed to painter Jan de Bray (Dutch, c. 1627 - 1688)

c. 1650

Medium
oil on copper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (oval): 7.5 x 5.9 cm (2 15/16 x 2 5/16 in.) ; framed: 16.8 x 15.2 cm (6 5/8 x 6 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Maida and George Abrams
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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