# Bust of a Young Girl

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LIEVENS, Jan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on panel, 62 x 48 cm

## Commentary

This is a characteristic early painting of the artist from his Leiden period. It is certainly not a portrait. Some experts assumed that it is a fragment of a larger composition, perhaps Mary from an Annunciation, but it is not convincing. The painting is probably a tronie of a young girl. \(Tronies are representations of particular character types, such as soldiers, orientals, old men or young women.\) The upward gaze lends many of Lievens&#39;s tronies a theatrical character emphasizing their position between portrait and history painting.

## Related artworks

- [A Tronie](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/a-tronie-r099dd965a5e127>)
- [Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/bearded-old-man-with-a-brown-cloak-r882cfa80723d8d>)
- [Head of an Old Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/head-of-an-old-man-rce93f8b7874f0b>)
- [Jacob Receiving the Bloody Tunic of Joseph](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/jacob-receiving-the-bloody-tunic-of-joseph-r2a06c677df3c3f>)
- [Old Man in Oriental Garb](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/old-man-in-oriental-garb-rdd999d996021ce>)
- [Pilate Washing his Hands](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/pilate-washing-his-hands-rc34ec0dd993d5f>)
- [Portrait of an Old Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/portrait-of-an-old-man-r26d65f35926bff>)
- [Portrait of Ephraim Bueno](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/portrait-of-ephraim-bueno-r0768137300fe89>)
- [Portrait of Petrus Egidius de Morrion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/portrait-of-petrus-egidius-de-morrion-r947f9ab13e149f>)
- [Portrait of Poet Jan Vos](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/portrait-of-poet-jan-vos-r83650b1b86a009>)
- [Prince Charles Louis with His Tutor, as Alexander Instructed by Aristotle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/prince-charles-louis-with-his-tutor-as-alexander-instructed-by-aristotle-ra6f51c4d9872d9>)
- [Rembrandt van Rijn with Gorget](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lievens-jan-rbc6c02f4db1ef7/rembrandt-van-rijn-with-gorget-r15df6fe677becf>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)