Study of a Man Playing Skittles, Jan Havicksz. Steen, c. 1650 - c. 1655

Identification

Title(s)

Study of a Man Playing Skittles

Object type

drawing

Object number

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

Creation

Artist

draftsman (artist): Jan Havicksz. Steen

Place

The Hague

Dating

c. 1650 - c. 1655

Material and Technique

Physical features

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

Material

Technique

drawing / brush

Measurements

height 156 mm × width 134 mm

Explanatory note

Voorstudie voor een schilderij.

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 18-Jun-1888

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-1878), Amsterdam (L. 1450); his widow, Abrahamina Henrietta de Vos-Wurfbain (1808-1883), Amsterdam; sale, Jacob de Vos Jbzn, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 501, fl. 25, to the dealer R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; donated by the Vereniging Rembrandt to the museum, 1888

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Dutch figure drawings from the seventeenth century, Janine Hamann-Orci, p. 79, afb. 2, cat.nr. 90
Figuurstudies, Peter 1936- Schatborn, p. 79, afb. 2
Hollandse genre-tekeningen, Peter 1936- Schatborn, cat.nr. 96
Dutch genre drawings of the seventeenth century, Peter 1936- Schatborn, cat.nr. 96
Holländische Zeichnungen der Rembrandt-Zeit ausgewählt aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden, Karel Gerard Boon, cat.nr. 119
I.Q. van Regteren Altena, 'Hoe tekende Jan Steen?', Oud Holland 9 (1943), p. 97-117 (p. 112, afb. 17, 18).

Persistent URL

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