A Young Boy Wearing a Plumed Hat, and a Young Girl

A charcoal and chalk drawing shows a boy in a wide-brimmed plumed hat turning toward the viewer, with a young girl leaning close beside him, her head bowed toward a small object in her hands. Soft stumped shading models the faces, and white chalk highlights the feather and cheeks against the grey paper.

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Date

1735/40

Medium

Charcoal with stumping, with black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, tipped on to beige Japanese paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2230 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection