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The subject of this famous portrait - formerly thought to be a self-portrait - is an unknown young man looking up from his book.Daylight enters as if through a high and narrow window on our left. Brilliant on the gathered shirt, reflections from which define the curve of the jaw and the twist of the neck, it casts deep shadows on the eye sockets, smoulders in the dark eyes, shapes the skull under the triangular hat, lends mobility and colour to the distinctive features. The twisting pose is at once momentary and stable.
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