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Boy with a Drawing Book
Also titled Jongen met een tekenboek
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (Paris, 1735–1784)
c. 1772
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 40 cm x width 32 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This is typical of the ‘sentimental’ studies of children that found such favour in France during the second half of the 18th century. It may be a portrait of a pupil or child of the artist. The painting is still in its original 18th-century frame.
