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    "localId": "329310",
    "label": "Studies of a Naked Seated Boy",
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    "id": "329310",
    "contentType": "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",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 23.7 x 16.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.)",
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    "tec": "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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    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:56:34.547000",
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    "med": "Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper",
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