# A Painter’s Studio

- By: Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
- Date: c. 1646 - c. 1650
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 71 cm x width 74 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-1957--05c1f4252fe6f5efd051af686df52d52)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/TYTyL/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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.