Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length

c. 1600

Roelant Savery

Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639)

Drawings

Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length, c. 1600. Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639). Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.114

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Savery, Roelandt
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk
Medium: pen, light-, dark-brown, inks, over, preliminary, drawing, black, chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: by artist, upper left, in brown ink: omberne / hoet ; by artist, upper right, in brown ink: gr[y?]sse hoed [=gray hat]; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, left center, in brown ink: [brúinockker?] rock [=brown-ochre mantel]; by artist, center, in brown ink: zwartter rock [=black mantel]; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: [nart?] het leuen [=taken from life]; VERSO, lower left, in blue pencil: WCA805 / WCA803
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1945.114
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Exhibitions: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries, Prints and Drawings by Pieter Bruegel, Drawings, Old Master Drawings, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Old Master Prints and Drawings, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel
Rights Statement: CC0