A Woman Standing next to a Chair
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (28.3 x 20.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2005
Accession Number
2005.383
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the tranquil collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department,A Woman Standing next to a Chair* Nicolaas Muys captures a moment of quiet elegance. Created in black chalk on a modest sheet measuring 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches (28.3 x 20.6 cm), this undated drawing showcases a solitary female figure poised beside a simple chair. The intimate scale invites viewers to lean in, appreciating the subtle interplay of form and space in what appears to be a study of everyday poise. Black chalk, a favored medium among 17th-century European draughtsmen, allowed Muys to achieve so...