DrawingsDutch17th century

Boy with his Face in the Shadows

17th century

Artists

Jan LievensArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, with later additions of brown, gray, and black ink and wash and touches of white opaque white watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

12.7 × 11 cm (5 × 4 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, by descent; to his grandson, Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; ca. 1942 to Lionel Robinson, London; by descent to his heirs; to [Day and Faber, London], sold; in 2010 to George Abrams.

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