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Seated Female Nude Wearing a Broad-brimmed Hat

Drawing
1641-1643 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Fabritius, Carel (artist)
Rembrandt (artist)
Place of origin
Amsterdam (drawn)

Study of a nude female seated, wearing a broad-rimmed hat or head-dress. Drawn with a pen and washed with sepia; The old Dutch paper on which this drawing is made has a very bad oil stain, it is worth noting that the drawing has been made after the accident occurred.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleSeated Female Nude Wearing a Broad-brimmed Hat (published title)
Materials and techniques
Reed pen and brown ink, with brown wash and some corrections in opaque white (in the figure’s left hand).
Paper
Pen
Sepia
Drawing (Image-Making)
Wash Technique
Brief description
Drawing, 'Seated Female Nude Wearing a Broad-brimmed Hat', attributed to Carel Fabritius, pen and washed with sepia; Dutch School, c.1641-3
Physical description
Study of a nude female seated, wearing a broad-rimmed hat or head-dress. Drawn with a pen and washed with sepia; The old Dutch paper on which this drawing is made has a very bad oil stain, it is worth noting that the drawing has been made after the accident occurred.
Dimensions
  • Height: 263 mm
  • Width: 203 mm
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at lower right (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 431; and below this, in bottom right corner, in a different, older hand, No- 234 (the last digit changed to 5).
  • Inscribed on mount below drawing, in pencil: at lower centre right, by Dyce, Rembrandt; and further to the right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 703.
Gallery label
The drawing was long thought to be by Rembrandt. It is rare, dating from the brief period that Carel Fabritius was working in Rembrandt’s studio. The bold contours and the dramatic areas of light and shade, created using brown wash, show the master’s influence on Fabritius.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Provenance: Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.

Subjects depicted
Nude
Hat
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 59, illus. p.105.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.431

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O819414/seated-female-nude-wearing-a-drawing-fabritius-carel/
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