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Study of Tree Trunks and Roots
Also titled Studie van boomstammen en –wortels
Roelant Savery (Kortrijk, 1576–1639)
c. 1606 - c. 1607
- Medium
- charcoal stick, paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 482 mm x width 370 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Joachim von Sandrart, Savery’s biographer, writes about large trees that the artist drew mit Kohle – in charcoal – in the Tyrol. This is just such a study of trees, indeed drawn in charcoal, which he first soaked in linseed oil. The linseed oil gives the strokes a more saturated black-brown colour, and the pigment adheres better to the paper.
