Reclining Youth

• Reclining Youth
• Reclining Boy

RP-T-1948-401

Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt from 1635 to 1641. He continued drawing in his master’s style for a long time. He also made a fascinating group of figure studies in brush and wash, the finest of which is this loosely portrayed youth. Such freely drawn studies were undoubtedly the kind of work he preferred making, for at the time, artists likened working for publishers to slave labour.

draughtsman: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

1653 - 1657

penseelpunt en bruine inkt, met penseel en bruine inkt; kaderlijnen in donkerbruine inkt

height 198 mm x width 307 mm

purchase 1948

Public domain

Inv.; sale, Henri Duval de Liège, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 22 June 1910 sqq., no. 110 with image, fl. 1,025, to the dealer Artaria, Vienna;{Copy RKD.} ? from whom to the gallerie Liechtenstein;{Note RKD.} …; collection Prince Franz Josef II von und zu Liechtenstein (1906-89), Vaduz;{Feilchenfeldt 2015, p. 137; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 1,750, through the mediation of the dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, to the museum, 1948

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