A Boy Seated Drawing

in the style of Wallerant Vaillant (1623 - 1677)

National Gallery

circa 18th Century

The boy is reading, there is a book at his feet in which he was drawing a cast of the Christ Child from Michelangelo's statue of the Virgin and Child, known as 'The Bruges Madonna'. One of thirteen gifts to five museums by J G Lousada through the Art Fund between 1921 and 1939.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 128 x 102 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1921
• Presented by Mr & Mrs J G Lousada through The Art Fund

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