Head of a boy.

Head of a Boy attributed to Paul Delaroche with a date of 1801 represents an early or problematic attribution, since the artist was born in 1797 and could not have produced a mature work in that year. The attribution likely reflects either a later dating error or a misidentification. The study demonstrates careful observation of a child's physiognomy, rendered in the controlled academic technique of Neoclassicism with clear, crisp modeling and restrained palette. Child studies were standard academic exercises that trained artists in figure painting and prepared them for complex multi-figure compositions. The work is held at the National Museum in Warsaw. Whether or not this represents Delaroche's early hand, it belongs to the tradition of French academic figure study that shaped painters working in the years immediately following the Napoleonic period.

The child's head is rendered with sympathetic attention to youthful features, demonstrating the observational precision that characterized Delaroche's work.