The Drawing Lesson

The Drawing Lesson

SK-A-396

signature: ‘A. van Strij’

A young pupil receives drawing instruction in the studio of his master. Perhaps the teacher is Abraham van Strij himself, who shared a large workshop in Dordrecht with his brother Jacob. The boy is drawing after a plaster cast of an ancient statue.

E.Bergvelt, 'Lodewijk Napoleon, de levende meesters en het Koninklijk Museum (1806-1810), Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek volume 56/57 (2005-2006), p. 265 + afb. 3

painter: Abraham van Strij (I)

c. 1790 - c. 1809

olieverf op paneel

• height 25 cm x width 20.5 cm
• depth 3.8 cm

purchase 1809

Public domain

E.Bergvelt, 'Lodewijk Napoleon, de levende meesters en het Koninklijk Museum (1806-1810), Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek volume 56/57 (2005-2006), p. 265 + afb. 3

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026372