Title Page with Models for Anatomical Drawing Exercises

Casper Casteleyn, 1653

An écorché (a figure with the skin removed to display the musculature), presented as a living man, sits on a dais flanked by a young man and woman, and an elderly couple. A mixed audience looks on from behind. This drawing may have been made for a book of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke. Casper Casteleyn had just joined this professional artists’ association in 1653, the very year he made this drawing.

  • Artwork typedrawing, design
  • Object numberRP-T-1890-A-2395
  • Dimensionsheight 331 mm x width 211 mm
  • Physical characteristicspoint of brush and grey wash, over black chalk and graphite; framing line in black chalk

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Design for a Title-page, with an 'Écorché' Figure and the Three Ages of Man
    • Title Page with Models for Anatomical Drawing Exercises

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1890-A-2395

  • Inscriptions / marks

    date: ‘1653’

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Casper Casteleyn, Haarlem (possibly)

  • Dating

    1653

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    point of brush and grey wash, over black chalk and graphite; framing line in black chalk

  • Dimensions

    height 331 mm x width 211 mm

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1890-12

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; ? sale, Cornelis van den Berg (1699-1774, Haarlem), Haarlem (C. van Noorde et al.), 29 August 1775 sqq., no. 323 (‘Een Dito [Titel], voor een Anatomi’s Werk, door Casteleyn’), with one other drawing, fl. 2:14:;{Hofstede de Groot notes, RKD, no. 1662140.}…; from the dealer H.J. Valk, Amsterdam, fl. 16, to the museum (L. 2228), 1890

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