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A Boy Sleeping in the Outdoors

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A Boy Sleeping in the Outdoors

Cornelis Saftleven

17th century

Medium

Black chalk

Tags

Dimensions

sheet: 6 5/16 x 10 1/2 in. (16 x 26.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Cornelis Saftleven

1607–1681 • Dutch Republic

Cornelis Saftleven was the brother and pupil of Herman Saftleven the younger. He married Catharina Dirksz. van der Heyde in 1649, and lived in Rotterdam from 1648 to 1674. He married his second wife, Elisabeth van der Avondt, in 1655, and was appointed director of the Rotterdam guild in 1667. Comment on works:Painter, watercolourist, engraver (etching), draughtsman (including ink). Religious subjects, figures, genre scenes, interiors with figures, rustic scenes, landscapes with figures, landscapes, ruins, animals.

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