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Two Studies of a Shepherd Resting
Also titled Twee studies van een rustende herder
Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam, 1636–1672)
1666 - 1671
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 199 mm x width 291 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Van de Velde here drew the same model twice: in one study the boy is asleep with his head resting on his right arm, and in the other awake and semi upright. The artist could use the same pair of legs for both poses, which explains why he only drew them once on the sheet of paper. Seventeenth-century artists did not like doing the same work twice.
