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Seated, Hunched Over Man
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1620 - c. 1685
Adriaen van Ostade often made preparatory drawings for his compositions. Here he worked out the man leaning over the lower half of a door. The blue paper allowed him to draw the shapes in black chalk as well as experiment with the distribution of light using white chalk. The heavily accentuated areas on the man’s jaw and around his hands suggest this was the first drawing for the composition.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1981-283
- Dimensionsheight 78 mm x width 74 mm
- Physical characteristicszwart krijt gehoogd met wit krijt op blauwgrijs papier