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Boy with Downcast Eyes
Also titled Jongen met neergeslagen ogen
Gerard ter Borch (II) (Zwolle, 1617–1681)
c. 1672 - 1678
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 115 mm x width 96 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Of all the children whom Gerard ter Borch taught to draw, only his eldest son Gerard the Younger developed into a professional artist. He specialized in portraits and genre paintings done in a highly refined style. He achieved the same level of finish in this drawing. The light falling on the face and hair of the boy is particularly felicitously rendered.
