# A Young Man Holding a Staff

- By: Pieter Claesz Soutman (Dutch, 1580 - 1657)
- Date: 1640
- Medium: oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 60.4 x 49.2 cm (23 3/4 x 19 3/8 in.) ; framed: 86.68 × 74.93 × 7.3 cm (34 1/8 × 29 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Culture: Flemish
- Credit line: Fund given in honor of Derald Ruttenberg’s Grandchildren
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.151105.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/0e95a043-6d84-4cef-adf9-60f4084b2a44/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)