Violin Player

Prints and Drawings

mid-17th century

Unknown artist
Dutch, active in Leiden, mid-17th century

This sensitive and evocative drawing relates closely to a painting of the same subject. The artist lightly applied black chalk to capture the facial features and hair of his sitter. Compared to the passage’s precision, the rest of the composition adopts a relatively abstract style. For example, the violin is only schematically described in outlines, and the viewer is left to imagine the bow that the figure should be holding in his right hand.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingeland
Title: Violin Player
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Artist's working dates 1650–1699
Medium: Black chalk, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper left, in pen and light brown ink :”Mieris f."; lower left, in graphite: "N. 6"
Dimensions: 11.3 × 10.1 cm (4 1/2 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.867
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Gregory Rubinstein, Rembrandt and His Time: An Important Private Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Master Drawings (published privately on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at the Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, 2015), cat. no. 62, p. 97 (ill.) (as Frans van Mieris the Elder).

West Bund, Shanghai, Long Museum, 16 April–10 May 2015, Rembrandt and His Time: An Important Private Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Master Drawings, no 62 in exhibition checklist (as Frans van Mieris the Elder).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020.

Dr. H.C. Valkema Blouw (1883–1953), Bodegraven, Oosterbeek, Utrecht, and Zeist, The Netherlands [stamp (Lugt 2505) verso, lower left, in purple]. Carel Emil Duits (1882–1969), London. Sold by Paul Russell, Amsterdam, through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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