# The Orphanage [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRAY, Jan de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Black chalk, 275 x 198 mm ## Commentary The composition of this drawing, representing girls in an orphanage, is spontaneous. The girls are engaged in merry conversation, the child in the right foreground looks out at the viewer, seems to have turned her head to see who has entered the room. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Allegorical Family Portrait]() - [Bacchus]() - [David Playing the Harp \(detail\)]() - [David Playing the Harp]() - [Haarlem Printer Abraham Casteleyn and His Wife Margarieta van Bancken \(detail\)]() - [Haarlem Printer Abraham Casteleyn and His Wife Margarieta van Bancken]() - [Haarlem Printer Abraham Casteleyn and His Wife Margarieta van Bancken]() - [Haarlem Printer Abraham Casteleyn and His Wife Margarieta van Bancken]() - [Joseph Receiving His Father and Brothers in Egypt]() - [Pharaoh's Daughter with Her Attendants and Moses in the Reed Basket]() - [Portrait of a Man Seated at a Table in his Study]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()