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Portrait of a Young Boy
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Portrait of a Young Boy

Medium

Black chalk, heightened with white, touches of graphite

Dimensions

sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. (14 x 9.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1995

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Frans van Mieris the Elder

1635–1681Dutch Republic

Painter and draughtsman. Along with Gerrit Dou, he was most influential among the Leiden ‘fine’ painters; famous for his small-scale genre scenes. The prices paid for his work during his lifetime were among the highest for Dutch paintings in the 17th century. Comment on works: History; Genre; Portraits; Mythology.