Studie van een boomstronk, Jacques de Gheyn, 1598 - 1608
Jacques de Gheyn, portraitJacques de GheynDutch, 1565–1629

Studie van een boomstronk

1598 - 1608 · Drawing

Can I see it?

Unknown

Where is “Studie van een boomstronk” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum

About the work

Jacques de Gheyn regularly ventured out into nature, taking chalk and paper with him. On one of his walks he recorded the contours of this tree with just a few black chalk lines. Once back in his studio, De Gheyn worked up the sketch further with pen and ink.

Rijksmuseum

Details

Accession number
RP-T-1922-42(R)

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

In the life of Jacques de Gheyn

The whole life
  1. 1596 · Workplace

    Leiden

  2. 1596

    Son born: Jacob de Gheyn III

  3. 1597 · Workplace

    Amsterdam

  4. 1598–1599 · Workplace

    Leiden

  5. 1601–1629 · Workplace

    The Hague

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On the same theme · Trees: chestnut-tree

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