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Described as 'a picture of exquisite beauty', Frans van Mieris's Drummer Boy can be considered one of the most important child genre scenes painted in Holland during the second half of the seventeenth century.⠀
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The Drummer Boy looks wistfully into the distance, the feather in his cap, a familiar vanitas symbol as is the empty birdcage above his head.⠀
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The light source is from the upper left, illuminating the boy and casting his shadow against the back wall.⠀
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Frans van Mieris delights in the minute observation of different surface textures: the boy dressed in a shimmering silk shirt with slashed sleeves; the wooden body of the drum and its taut skin tied with string and the vine leaves seen in various degrees of light.⠀
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Intended as a meditation on childhood, van Mieris celebrates the innocent state of youth, the two protagonists absorbed in their play.⠀
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Frans Van Mieris, The Elder (1631-1685), 'The Drummer Boy', 1670. Estimate: £800,000-£1,200,000.⠀
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Old Masters Evening Sale — 15 December, London.⠀
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