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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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Document identity
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329310
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Studies of a Naked Seated Boy
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drawing
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329310
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drawing
title
Studies of a Naked Seated Boy
description
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.
date
c. 1603
citation
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language
en
wikidata
Q79876000
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4715
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 23.7 x 16.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
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Netherlands, 16th - 17th century
accession
2019.2
Source extras
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Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper
tombstone
Studies of a Naked Seated Boy, c. 1603. Jacob de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, 1565–1629). Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper; sheet: 23.7 x 16.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.2
collection
DR - Dutch
inscriptions
inscription
in graphite, verso: “24” and “376/” and “Helmont”?
didYouKnow
This sheet of studies of a young male model drawn from various angles is among the earliest nudes drawn from life in the Netherlands.
citations
citation
Regteren Altena, I. Q. van. Jacques De Gheyn, Three Generations. The Hague: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1983.
page_number
vol 2, cat. no. 796, p. 127-28, vol 3, p. 147, pl. 281
citation
Peters, Emily. “Acquisitions 2019: Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 20-21.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 21; Mentioned: P. 20.
citation
Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 208-209, no. 61
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:56:34.547000
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329310
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Drawings
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DR - Dutch
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Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper
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male
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