# Bust of a Boy Wearing a Cap [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LORENZO DI CREDI]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Metalpoint with white highlights on pale brownish pink prepared paper, 245 x 188 mm ## Commentary Bust of a Boy Wearing a Cap c. 1480 Metalpoint with white highlights on pale brownish pink prepared paper, 245 x 188 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris None of Lorenzo di Credi's easel portraits, for which he drew beautiful studies, have come down to us. The surviving easel portraits are rather tame, whereas the portrait drawings are among the best things he ever did. The Bust of a Boy must have been made as a workshop exercise; at least two other sheets by Lorenzo di Credi depict the similar workshop assistants with their heads turned and their eyes looking up. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [An Angel Brings the Holy Communion to Mary Magdalen]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Bust of a Man Wearing a Rolled-Up Cowl Hood]() - [Head of an Elderly Man Wearing a Hat]() - [Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate]() - [Madonna with the Christ Child and St John the Baptist]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [The Holy Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()