A Painter’s Studio
Also titled Een schildersatelier
Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
c. 1646 - c. 1650
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 71 cm x width 74 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Like so many artists, Sweerts undertook a study trip to Rome. There he painted this scene of a painter’s studio, in which all the phases of artistic training are to be seen. At the left a young artist studies a large anatomical figure; piled up at the right are fragments of antique statues. In the left background a painter sketches from a nude model; a completed painting hangs on the wall.
