Boy with a Cat

About this work

This portrait features a young boy with red hair, sitting in a wooden chair. He wears a blue and red plaid outfit with a white collar, paired with black shoes. A white cat with brown spots sits on the floor to his left. The boy's attire and the cat's presence suggest a domestic setting, possibly a home. The painting's style and the boy's clothing indicate an earlier time period. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston holds this artwork. For more on the artist's use of chiaroscuro, a technique that uses strong contrasts between light and dark to create a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects and figures, look into other works by the same artist.