Slapende man op een houtblok
Jan van Somer
1672
Medium
paper
Dimensions
169; 237
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
Jan van Somer’s *Slapende man op een houtblok* (Sleeping Man on a Log), created in 1672, captures a quietly intimate moment from the Dutch Golden Age. Rendered on paper measuring just 237 by 169 millimeters, the work invites close viewing, as if the viewer has stumbled upon a weary figure resting in a humble setting. Van Somer, active in Amsterdam, specialized in prints and drawings that translated everyday observations into sensitive studies of light, texture, and human posture. Works on paper like this one played a vital role in seventeenth-century Dutch artistic practice, allowing artists ...