Head of a Boy Singing (Study for Music)
c. 1898
- Medium
- black, white, and red chalk with stumping, pricked for transfer
- Dimensions
- 39.6 × 27.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192285
This sheet was a preparatory study for the face of a singing boy who appears near the center of Music, a mural decorating the left grand staircase at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris. Drawn from life with exquisite naturalism, Luc-Olivier Merson captured the sitter’s youthful beauty with such clarity that the purity of the boy’s voice seems to emanate from the drawing.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.394
Registry history
- c. 1898 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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