Seated Woman Searching for Fleas
Adriaen van de Velde
1666–1676
- Medium
- red chalk over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
netherlands
About
Born into a prominent family of Dutch marine painters, Adriaen van de Velde was admired as a landscape painter. He specialized in atmospheric pastoral scenes that feature livestock and rustic figures drawn from life. This intimate study of a shepherdess searching for fleas exemplifies the artist’s skilled use of red chalk to capture the effects of light and shade.
