Sitting Boy with Flute, Cornelis Saftleven, 1665

Title(s)

Sitting Boy with Flute

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1902-A-4570

Artist

• draughtsman: Cornelis Saftleven

Dating

1665

Physical features

black chalk

Material

• paper
• chalk

Measurements

height 274 mm × width 197 mm

What

• one person playing wind instrument
• wind instruments
• sitting figure
• boy (child between toddler and youth)

Acquisition

purchase 1902

Copyright

Public domain

• Dutch figure drawings from the seventeenth century, Peter Schatborn, Janine Hamann-Orci, p. 78, afb. 2, cat.nr. 89
• Figuurstudies : Nederlandse tekeningen uit de 17de eeuw, Peter Schatborn, p. 78, afb. 2, cat.nr. 89
• Cornelis Saftleven, 1606-1608 : Leben und Werke : mit einem kritische Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Wolfgang Schulz, p. 65, afb. 72, p. 81, cat.nr. 36