*Day 6 - Wallace Collection

Wallace Collection
Leon Cogniet Rebecca and Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert oil on canvas

J.B. OudryWild Duck ArousedOil on CanvasFrench Rococo painter

Govaert Flinck 

Young Archer 

Oil on canvas

Type of painting, popularised by Rembrandt and his students, called a "tronie", which means a head, a face, an expression. A tronie, although usually painted from life, was not sold as a portrait of a named person but as a study of character. Subjects for tronies were exotic but not grotesque, whether they represented an old man, a beggar, or, as here, a black soldier