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This sheet was a preparatory study for the face of a singing boy who appears near the center of Music, a mural decorating the left grand staircase at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, Paris. Drawn from life with exquisite naturalism, Merson captured the sitter’s youthful beauty with such clarity that the purity of the boy’s voice seems to emanate from the drawing.</div>
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Luc-Olivier Merson</div>
1893<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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