Rape of the Sabines
Jacob Toorenvliet
c. 1681
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped onto card
Dimensions
23.7 × 30.7 cm (9 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83963
About the Artist
Jacob Toorenvliet
**Jacob Toorenvliet (1640–1719)** Jacob Toorenvliet was baptized on 1 July 1640 in Leiden, in the Dutch Republic, the son of Abraham Toorenvliet, a prominent glass painter, drawing master, and member of both the Glassmakers’ Guild and the Guild of Saint Luke. He learned the rudiments of painting from his father, who also instructed artists like Frans van Mieris the Elder and Matthijs Naiveu, befo...