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
Rights
Public Domain
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 ...