Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length
c. 1600
- Medium
- Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 15.1 × 18.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190700
These three drawings, which depict seated peasants at a market in the city and a team of horses led by a herder on horseback, are part of a group of approximately 80 observational drawings by Savery. His farmers, market vendors, and other everyday people are never posed and rarely glance at the viewer. Savery marked each drawing with detailed instructions regarding the colors to be used later and the words naer het leven (from the life). The works were made in Prague when Savery was employed at the court of the great patron and art collector Emperor Rudolf II, demonstrating that interest in p…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1945.114
Registry history
- c. 1600 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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