Hands Emerging from a Cloud, Plucking Hairs from the Heads of Two Elderly Men, One almost Bald, the Other with a Luxuriant Thatch of Hair, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, c. 1633

Title(s)

Hands Emerging from a Cloud, Plucking Hairs from the Heads of Two Elderly Men, One almost Bald, the Other with a Luxuriant Thatch of Hair

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1898-A-4056

Artist

• draughtsman: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

Dating

c. 1633

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with grey wash and opaque watercolour, over traces of a sketch in graphite or black chalk; framing line in grey-brown ink

Material

• paper
• ink
• deck paint
• chalk

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 49 mm × width 65 mm

What

• sitting figure

Credit line

• D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet

Acquisition

bequest 1898

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance