A portrait of a man, facing right
This is the only known drawing by Rudolf van Walburg [Walpurgh], believed to have been active in Leiden in the 1660s by virtue of his portrait print of the German scholar Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (Johan Friedrich Gronow), who held professorships in the Netherlands, first at Deventer (1643-1658) and then at Leiden University (1658-1671). Exhibiting a spectacular degree of technical precision and finish, the present sheet is comparable to the work of Johannes Thopas, an artist active in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Haarlem in the second half of the seventeenth century who specialized in this sort of virtuosic portrait drawing on parchment. The dynamic turn of the sitter's head and subtly animated face also link Walburg's drawing to a slightly earlier, more naturalistic tradition of drawn portraiture exemplified by the work of Cornelis Visscher and Wallerant Vaillant.
Artwork Details
- Title: A portrait of a man, facing right
- Artist: Rudolf van Walburg (Dutch, Amsterdam circa 1632–?)
- Date: 1660s-1680s
- Medium: Graphite, black chalk and black ink, yellow-brown wash on vellum
- Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 6 3/16 in. (18.4 × 15.7 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2025
- Object Number: 2025.324
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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