id:			329310
accession number:	2019.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.2
updated:		2023-08-24 01:32:44.185000

Studies of a Naked Seated Boy, c. 1603. The elder Jacob de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565–1629). Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper; sheet: 23.7 x 16.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2019.2

title:				Studies of a Naked Seated Boy
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creation date:			c. 1603
creation date earliest:		1598
creation date latest:		1608
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Netherlands, 16th - 17th century
technique:	Black chalk and white chalks with stumping on gray-blue antique laid paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Dutch
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Jacob de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565–1629)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 23.7 x 16.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	in graphite, verso: “24” and “376/” and “Helmont”?
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel
	opening date:   2022-10-09T04:00:00
	<i>Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(possibly) Jacob Helmolt, Haarlem, Netherlands
	date: 1747-1808
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	Faerber and Maison, Ltd., London, England
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	Einar Perman, Stockholm, Sweden
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	Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	date: October 29, 1979
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	Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	date: 1979-2019
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 4, 2019
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fun fact:
This sheet of studies of a young male model drawn from various angles is among the earliest nudes drawn from life in the Netherlands.

digital description:
This sheet of studies of a young male model drawn from various angles is among the earliest nudes drawn from life in the Netherlands. The artist Jacques de Gheyn carefully observed the boy’s body and poses, concentrating on the modeling of his skin and muscles through light and shadow rendered with a combination of black and white chalks on gray-blue paper. The directness of this study was unusual in the Northern Netherlands around 1600, where the vogue for mythological scenes inspired human bodies that were more artificial than natural.

wall description:
Around 1600, De Gheyn made his first studies of nude models, a practice that was unusual in the Netherlands at the time. An unclothed young man appears four times from different angles. De Gheyn modelled the bodies with varying degrees of finish, using blended black and white chalks on a middle-tone blue paper. Additional sketches around the more finished figures focus on body parts, like the musculature of a torso and the bare outline of the pose. The intent may have been simple observation <em>naar het leven</em> (from the life), or the study of a pose for another composition.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Regteren Altena, I. Q. van. Jacques De Gheyn, Three Generations. The Hague: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1983.
	page number: 	vol 2, cat. no. 796, p. 127-28, vol 3, p. 147, pl. 281
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	Peters, Emily.  “Acquisitions 2019: Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 20-21.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 21; Mentioned: P. 20.
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	Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 208-209, no. 61
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IMAGES

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