Study of Nude Youth Seated on a Cushion

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Artist/Maker	Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist)
Place of origin	Holland (drawn)

A studio model, naked except for a loincloth, reclines on a cushion atop some sort of platform, with his feet crossed at the ankles and his arms crossed across his torso; he looks straight ahead, almost directly at the viewer.

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Drawing
Title	Study of Nude Youth Seated on a Cushion (published title)
Materials and techniques	Pen and brown ink on paper, with brown and grey wash and some corrections in opaque white; framing line in dark brown ink. Paper Pen Sepia Brown Ink Brown Wash Grey Wash Drawing (Image-Making) Wash Technique Heightening
Brief description	Drawing, 'Study of Nude Youth Seated on a Cushion', Rembrandt van Rijn (School of), Dutch School, 17th century
Physical description	A studio model, naked except for a loincloth, reclines on a cushion atop some sort of platform, with his feet crossed at the ankles and his arms crossed across his torso; he looks straight ahead, almost directly at the viewer.
Dimensions	Height: 200mm Width: 216mm
Style	Dutch School
Production type	Unique
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with museum's Dyce inv. no.), 434; on verso, at lower left, in black chalk, Rembrandt. Inscribed on mount below drawing, in pencil: at lower centre right, by Dyce, Rembrandt; further to the right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce's original inv. no.), 754.
Credit line	Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history	Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted	Nude Man Cushion
Bibliographic references	DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874. Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 166, illus. p.219.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	DYCE.434

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O819412/study-of-nude-youth-seated-drawing-rembrandt-van-rijn/

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