Men and Boys Throwing Snowballs, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, 1638

Title(s)

Men and Boys Throwing Snowballs

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1898-A-4057

Artist

• draughtsman: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

Dating

1638

Physical features

graphite, with pen and black ink; framing line in graphite (partly traced with black ink)

Material

• paper
• graphite (mineral)
• ink

Technique

pen

Measurements

height 166 mm × width 222 mm

What

• ice ~ freezing weather
• throwing snowballs

Credit line

• D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet

Acquisition

bequest 1898

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Figure and ground : Rembrandt to Mondriaan : landscape and people in Netherlands art 1520-1920, Peter Murray, p. 44, afb.
• M. Schapelhouman, 'Dood en verderf', Kunstschrift 53 (2010) nr. 6, p. 19