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Boy Walking with a Stick

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Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) · 1606–1669

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Date: c. 1635 - c. 1640
Medium: paint (coating), prepared paper, ink
Culture: Amsterdam
Institution: Rijksmuseum

Why this boy is holding a stick is unclear. Rembrandt may have portrayed a victim of leprosy, who was required to carry a stick to warn his healthy fellow citizens. Rembrandt deliberately did not draw the stick entirely straight, giving it a more natural appearance. He used iron gall ink, notorious for eating holes through paper, so-called ink corrosion.

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