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Portrait of a youth
(c. 1608)
Medium
pen and brown ink
Measurements
12.2 × 11.0 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1958
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Jacques de Gheyn II was a Dutch painter and engraver whose career bridged the stylised forms of northern Mannerism and the Baroque naturalism of Rembrandt. It is thought this sensitive drawing depicts the artist’s son Jacques de Gheyn III (1595–1641) at about twelve years of age. While the boy’s face is carefully modelled using the engraver’s vocabulary of dots and delicate hatching, the torso is summarily drawn, imparting a sense of spontaneity and animation to the drawing. Jacques de Gheyn III was a painter, engraver and collector who owned Rembrandt’s Two old men disputing, which is now in the NGV Collection and is displayed opposite.
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Van Regteren Altena 734
Accession Number
32-5
Department
International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
boys busts (general, figures) line drawings (drawings) profiles (figures) sketches youth (people)