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A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child

mid-17th century
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A man, possibly a peddler or a street entertainer, gestures animatedly toward a wicker cage housing a marmot or a similar small animal. The woman holding a child in her arms leans forward seemingly intrigued. While Rembrandt rarely treated genre subjects, he did take an interest in street life, depicting such everyday people in a social context. This drawing, probably by one of Rembrandt’s many
pupils, is done in the prevalent reed-pen-and-ink technique; the embellishments in gray wash are by a later hand.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child
  • Artist: School of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
  • Date: mid-17th century
  • Culture: Dutch
  • Medium: Reed pen and brown ink, pen and gray washes; verso in pen and dark brown ink.
  • Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (13.4 x 13 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.798
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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