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The head and shoulders of a young, pale-skinned boy fill this oval portrait painting. His shoulders are angled to our right, but he turns his face to look at us out of the corners of his large, dark blue eyes. His round cheeks and nose are slightly flushed, and his full, pink lips are closed over a cleft chin. His wavy brown hair falls to his shoulders and around his high, lace-edged collar. The boy’s brown doublet has small buttons down the front, which falls open over a linen shirt. His sleeves are also slit almost up to the shoulders to reveal linen there, too. Light from high to our left falls across the boy’s face and casts the ocean-green background into shadow.
Jan de Bray, Head of a Young Boy, c. 1650, oil on copper, Gift of Maida and George Abrams, 1995.74.1

Head of a Young Boy

Jan de Bray · c. 1650 · oil on copper ·  Accession ID  1995.74.1

Friedrich Brentel, The Crucifixion, 1627, gouache heightened with gold on vellum, New Century Fund, 2004.112.1

The Crucifixion

Friedrich Brentel · 1627 · gouache heightened with gold on vellum ·  Accession ID  2004.112.1