Child with a Whip - VOORT, Michiel van der, the Elder - WGA
Child with a Whip by VOORT, Michiel van der, the Elder
Child with a Whip by VOORT, Michiel van der, the Elder

Child with a Whip

by VOORT, Michiel van der, the Elder, Oil on canvas, 105 x 75 cm

Although a commissioned work, this portrait of five-year-old �tienne Goujon, the son of a French senator, was painted en plein air and is entirely Impressionistic. The freshness of the summer garden envelops the boy, filling his smock with a play of reflected colours. Only the face, executed with a classically precise line, displays an unchildlike seriousness.

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