Study of a Seated Man Smoking a Pipe, Jan Havicksz. Steen, c. 1650 - c. 1655

Title(s)

Study of a Seated Man Smoking a Pipe

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1888-A-1514(R)

Artist

• draughtsman: Jan Havicksz. Steen

Place

The Hague

Dating

c. 1650 - c. 1655

Physical features

black chalk, with some grey wash; framing lines in graphite or pencil (partially trimmed); verso: black chalk, with red chalk

Material

• paper
• chalk

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 156 mm × width 134 mm

What

• pipe ~ tobacco (+ taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.)
• sitting figure

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 18-Jun-1888

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Related

• Studie van een kegelaar

• Dutch figure drawings from the seventeenth century, Peter Schatborn, Janine Hamann-Orci, p. 79, afb. 1, cat.nr. 90
• Figuurstudies : Nederlandse tekeningen uit de 17de eeuw, Peter Schatborn, p. 79, afb. 1, cat.nr. 90
• Hollandse genre-tekeningen, afb. 33, cat.nr. 96
• Dutch genre drawings of the 17th century, Peter Schatborn, Karel Gérard Boon, Annemarie H. Pope, Gary Schwartz, cat.nr. 96
• Holländische Zeichnungen der Rembrandt-Zeit ausgewählt aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden, Karel Gerard Boon, Annemarie Hübner, Frits Lugt, cat.nr. 119
• I.Q. van Regteren Altena, 'Hoe tekende Jan Steen?', Oud Holland 9 (1943), p. 97-117 (p. 112, afb. 17, 18).