A Young Man Pursuing His Beloved into the Woods
David Vinckboons
ca. 1621
Medium
Pen and brown ink, bluish gray and brown washes.
Dimensions
4 11/16 x 3 5/16 in. (11.9 x 8.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.817
Tags
MenWomenForests
About the Artist
David Vinckboons · 1576–1632
David Vinckboons (baptized 13 August 1576 – c. 1632) was a Flemish-born painter who became a pivotal figure in the Dutch Golden Age. Born in Mechelen in the Southern Netherlands, he was the son of Philips Vinckboons, a watercolor painter on canvas, under whom he studied as his sole teacher, according to Karel van Mander. The family fled religious turmoil, moving first to Antwerp around 1580, then ...