Seated Woman Searching for Fleas
c. 1671
- Medium
- red chalk over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 18.4 × 23.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192313
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.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1966.239
Registry history
- c. 1671 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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