Head of a Boy Singing (Study for Music), c. 1898. This sheet was a preparatory study for the face of a singing boy who appears near the center of Music, a mural decorating the left grand staircase at the Th??tre National de l?Op?ra-Comique, Paris. Drawn from life with exquisite naturalism, Merson captured the sitter?s youthful beauty with such clarity that the purity of the boy?s voice seems to emanate from the drawing.