Man Sitting on a Cask on a Wheelbarrow

c. 1787

Jacob van Strij

Associated Names
Jacob van Strij

Artist, Dutch, 1756 - 1815

The image depicts a person seated on a wheeled contraption. The individual is facing away from the viewer, wearing a large brimmed hat, a coat with cuffs and breeches, and straps across the back. The person's curly hair extends to the collar, and their feet are visible resting on the apparatus. In the background, there is a stone wall and a faint outline of a landscape with trees and a distant spire or tower. The image has a monochromatic sketch-like quality.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gray wash over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.1 × 20.5 cm (9 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.83.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hans van Leeuwen [1911-?], Amsterdam (Lugt 2799a). (Onno van Seggelen Fine Arts, Rotterdam, 2016); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, NGA, 2016.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink by the artist: JvStrij; center verso in gray ink: Na het levend model geteekend op het teekengeselschap Pictura te Dordt; below that in graphite: ongeveer 1787; lower right in graphite: J. van Strij; and in pen and brown ink: /25.

Markings

Collector's mark of Hans van Leeuwen stamped in black on verso (Lugt 2799a)

Wikidata ID

Q64580040

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