Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
1745–1755
- Medium
- Pastel on blue laid paper, laid down on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.2 × 37.4 cm (17 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpastelpastels (crayons)crayonspaper (fiber product)
About
Jean Baptiste Perronneau was one of the most unique portraitists in oil or pastel of the eighteenth century. He worked throughout Europe and Russia, but died a pauper in Holland. One of his most compelling early works is this pastel portrait. In this animated expression of youth, Perronneau used green shading to attain a naturalistic, lively face.
