# Seated, Hunched Over Man

- By: Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
- Date: c. 1620 - c. 1685
- Medium: paper, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 78 mm x width 74 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds, the Belport Familienstiftung and a contribution from the J.A.Z. Count van Regteren Limpurg Bequest
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1981-283--2cb0747e54108d0c08e6871e9287759a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/00ae2399c75839cc3ddc8fcff9be5b59.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Adriaen van Ostade often made preparatory drawings for his compositions. Here he worked out the man leaning over the lower half of a door. The blue paper allowed him to draw the shapes in black chalk as well as experiment with the distribution of light using white chalk. The heavily accentuated areas on the man’s jaw and around his hands suggest this was the first drawing for the composition.