Description: Red chalk, 308 x 209 mm. Watermark: Horn. Chain lines: 23–24 mm. Inscribed in the lower right corner van Velde, and numbered 1965 (Sparre) and 59 (struck out), in pen and brown ink. Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

Adriaen van de Velde made many model studies of this type in red chalk. The same position was often studied with and without clothes, and a characteristic feature is the repetition of part of the motif.  Almost the same position as the nude model in the present drawing is assumed by a dressed model (perhaps the same boy) in a drawing sold at Christie’s, Amsterdam, in 1991. This in turn served as a model for the boy in the foreground of the painting Landscape with a Shepherd and a Girl Milking a Cow, formerly on the London art market.

A counter-proof of the drawing is in the museum of Besançon. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 424]

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Adriaen Velde | Naken sittande man | Nationalmuseum

Adriaen Velde | Study of a Male Nude Seated on the Ground | Nationalmuseum

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Titel (sv): Naken sittande man
Titel (en): Study of a Male Nude Seated on the Ground
Titel (fr): Étude d'un nu masculin assis à terre, appuyé contre une urne

Title (sv): Naken sittande man
Title (en): Study of a Male Nude Seated on the Ground
Title (fr): Étude d'un nu masculin assis à terre, appuyé contre une urne