Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Reclining Youth
Also titled Liggende jongen
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Amsterdam, 1621–1674)
1653 - 1657
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 198 mm x width 307 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt from 1635 to 1641. He continued drawing in his master’s style for a long time. He also made a fascinating group of figure studies in brush and wash, the finest of which is this loosely portrayed youth. Such freely drawn studies were undoubtedly the kind of work he preferred making, for at the time, artists likened working for publishers to slave labour.
