Unknown artist
Dutch, active in Leiden, mid-17th century
Violin Player
INV-2438
Unknown artist
Dutch, active in Leiden, mid-17th centurymid-17th century
drawings (visual works)chalk
Date
mid-17th century
Medium
Black chalk, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
11.3 × 10.1 cm (4 1/2 × 4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
This sensitive and evocative drawing relates closely to a painting of the same subject. The artist lightly applied black chalk to capture the facial features and hair of his sitter. Compared to the passage’s precision, the rest of the composition adopts a relatively abstract style. For example, the violin is only schematically described in outlines, and the viewer is left to imagine the bow that the figure should be holding in his right hand.
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