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Boy Walking with a Stick
Also titled Lopende jongen met een stok
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1635 - c. 1640
- Medium
- paint (coating), prepared paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 140 mm x width 107 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Why this boy is holding a stick is unclear. Rembrandt may have portrayed a victim of leprosy, who was required to carry a stick to warn his healthy fellow citizens. Rembrandt deliberately did not draw the stick entirely straight, giving it a more natural appearance. He used iron gall ink, notorious for eating holes through paper, so-called ink corrosion.
