Head of a Boy Singing (Study for Music)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Head of a Boy Singing (Study for Music)

Luc-Olivier Merson (French, 1846–1920) · c. 1898

black, white, and red chalk with stumping, pricked for transfer
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The face of the boy in this drawing is pricked extensively so that the image could be transferred directly to the final painting for which it was a study. The two works differ only in the addition of a hat on the boy's head in the final work.

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