# Boy with a Drawing Book

- By: Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (Paris, 1735–1784)
- Date: c. 1772
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 40 cm x width 32 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1685--4c99834b59c95555c04309c090b6193b)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/70c2a5e122b52db0cdfb5541c7c9cd6e.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.