A man in a hat looking up
1693
Medium
Black chalk on vellum, black chalk framing lines
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 in. × 9 7/16 in. (27.9 × 23.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
Accession Number
2019.276.7
Tags
About the Artist
Cornelis Dusart · 1660–1704
Cornelis Dusart (1660–1704) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who stands as one of the most important continuators of the peasant genre tradition established by Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem. Born in Haarlem, Dusart entered Van Ostade's workshop as a pupil and assistant, a relationship that proved formative in every respect. He so thoroughly absorbed his master's approach — the depi...