Cleveland Museum of Art

Studies of a Naked Seated Boy

Jacob de Gheyn IILinkedCulture matchlcp-1e09998c4abf

Date: c. 1603
Medium: Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper
Culture: Netherlands, 16th - 17th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 329310

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This sheet of studies of a young male model drawn from various angles is among the earliest nudes drawn from life in the Netherlands. The artist Jacques de Gheyn carefully observed the boy’s body and poses, concentrating on the modeling of his skin and muscles through light and shadow rendered with a combination of black and white chalks on gray-blue paper. The directness of this study was unusual in the Northern Netherlands around 1600, where the vogue for mythological scenes inspired human bodies that were more artificial than natural.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: 1747-1808: (possibly) Jacob Helmolt, Haarlem, Netherlands | Faerber and Maison, Ltd., London, England | Einar Perman, Stockholm, Sweden | October 29, 1979: Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1979-2019: Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands | March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH