An African Woman with a Hand Drum

An African Woman with a Hand Drum

NG-2016-37-11

annotation: ‘Een Caffarin’

Andries Beeckman (1628-1664). Andries Beeckman recorded the people he saw on his travels to South Africa and Southeast Asia. As far as we know he drew them from life. Only he probably did not see the Khoikhoi woman with an infant in this way, as he copied her from a drawing in an English travel journal. Beeckman’s drawings found favour with European collectors and he also used them as preliminary studies for his paintings.

• draughtsman: anoniem (possibly)
• after design by: after design of Andries Beeckman

c. 1675 - c. 1725

waterverf

height 320 mm x width 200 mm

Purchased with the support of the Johan Huizinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 2016-01-21

Public domain

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