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A young man with fair hair and blue eyes is shown from the side, with nothing to indicate his identity or social status. The picture is painted on a paper support, which may originally have been laid down on a panel; it is now mounted on canvas.

Profile portraits like this had largely gone out of favour in France during the sixteenth century, but the form was not totally unfashionable. It is perhaps possible that this, painted on paper, may be a study for, or even a fragment of, a cartoon (a full-size preparation) for a tapestry. In one of the Valois Tapestries (Florence, Uffizi), a child standing in front of Catherine de' Medici – probably her grandson, Charles of Valois – is shown in profile. His head is not unlike this painting.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Portrait of a Boy

Date

16th C

Medium

Oil on canvas, possibly transferred from wood

Measurements

H 37.5 x W 27.3 cm

Accession number

NG1190

Acquisition method

Presented by G.F. Watts, 1885

Work type

Painting

The National Gallery, London

Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England

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French School

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