Portrait of a Young Boy
French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
Diameter: 38 cm (15 inches)
Private collection
Painting ID:: 1453
136 x 103 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp No matter how versatile individual artists might have been, the splitting up of painting into different specialisms meant that artists often cooperated on a single painting to which each made his own special contribution. Erasmus Quellin and Jan Fyt (1611-1661) painted the Portrait of a Boy, with Quellin portraying the young lad, and Fyt the dogs and falcon. , Artist: QUELLIN, Erasmus II , Portrait of a Young Boy , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , portrait
Painting ID:: 64258
