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Study sheet with legs and the upper body of a boy
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Study sheet with legs and the upper body of a boy

Abraham Bloemaert · 1574 - 1651 · paper; chalk

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

The painter Bloemaert ‘tried out‘ several body parts on this sheet in order to use them later in a larger composition. This kind of drawing belonged to a repertoire of motifs that the artist had accumulated in the course of many years of study. Bloemaert used the figure of the boy in a painting of John the Baptist Preaching (Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig).

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
drawinghead (human)footlegs
Credit lineStudieblad met benen en het bovenlichaam van een jongen. 1574 - 1651. Abraham Bloemaert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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