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Luc-Olivier Merson

Head of a Boy Singing (Study for Music)

c. 1898
black, white, and red chalk with stumping, pricked for transfer

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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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