Study of a Boy's Head

Acquisition of the Month, September 2015 An Oil Study by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert Nationalmuseum’s collection of Baroque paintings has been enriched by a work by Flemish painter Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert. The painting is an oil head study of a mischievous-looking boy with rosy cheeks and abundant curly blond hair, painted in the mid-1640s. Leaning back slightly, his head cocked to one sid…