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Title Page with Models for Anatomical Drawing Exercises
Casper Casteleyn (c. 1625-after 1661), black chalk, brush and grey wash, graphite, 1653
An écorché (a figure with the skin removed to display the musculature), presented as a living man, sits on a dais flanked by a young man and woman, and an elderly couple. A mixed audience looks on from behind. This drawing may have been made for a book of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke. Casper Casteleyn had just joined this professional artists’ association in 1653, the very year he made this drawing.
- Artwork typedrawing, design
- Object numberRP-T-1890-A-2395
- Dimensionsheight 331 mm x width 211 mm