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William Henry Brown

Silhouette of a Young Man Before an Open Window, Facing Right

before 1860
Cut paper against a lithographic background
34 × 26.7 cm (13.4 × 10.5 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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