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
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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
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