# Boy Walking with a Stick

- By: Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
- Date: c. 1635 - c. 1640
- Medium: paint (coating), prepared paper, ink
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 140 mm x width 107 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1984-119--592e8a273b9713cb6eb8ca15cd781d7e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/97fa468241818d306ec13f9b3bec3045.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.