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Flemish School, 17th century
Head of a boy in profile
Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue prepared paper | 25.5 x 27.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 900238
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A drawing of the head of a boy in profile, in the style of Rubens. This formed part of the volumes of drawings by Domenichino. Possibly copied from the head of Christ in the former's painting of the Infant Jesus, St John and two Angels, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Provenance
First recorded in a Royal Collection Inventory of c. 1810 (Inv. A, p. 86: Domenichino. Vol. v. Among 'The Heads of a Virgin & Child, and Forty nine of Boys Heads,- Study's')
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue prepared paper
Measurements
25.5 x 27.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 238
