A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child
mid-17th century
Medium
Reed pen and brown ink, pen and gray washes; verso in pen and dark brown ink.
Dimensions
5 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (13.4 x 13 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Culture
Dutch
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.798
Tags
About the Artist
School of Rembrandt van Rijn · 1606–1669
**The School of Rembrandt van Rijn** The School of Rembrandt van Rijn refers to the collective body of artists who trained and worked in the workshop of the master Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) during his active career in Leiden and Amsterdam. Rembrandt operated a large and prolific studio, where pupils paid 100 guilders annually for instruction, allowing him to earn su...