Youth Making a Face
Adriaen Brouwer
c. 1632/1635
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
overall: 13.7 × 10.5 cm (5 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.) framed: 33.65 × 30.48 × 6.99 cm (13 1/4 × 12 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
1994.46.1
About the Artist
Adriaen Brouwer · 1605–1638
Son of a tapestry designer and an embroidress (or perhaps dressmaker). Legend has it that his widowed mother placed him as an apprentice in the studio of Frans Hals in Haarlem. In 1626 Brouwer moved to Amsterdam and was a successful artist. Comment on works: Genre; Religious; Landscapes