drawing
- Museum number
- 1836,0811.329
- Description
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Study of an almost nude man, seated; whole-length, slightly to left, looking down to left, leaning with his weight on his left hand
Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey-brown paper
- Production date
- 1655-1658 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 311 millimetres
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Width: 203 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The same model in comparable pose also appears in the preparatory study for Cooghen's etching of 'St Sebastian' (dated 1665) now in Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, inv.no.2878.
Literature: Baukje J.L. Coenen, 'The Drawings of the Haarlem Amateur Leendert van der Cooghen', in 'Master Drawings' 43 (2005), no.A47.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- John Sheepshanks sold to Smith in 1835.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0811.329