Friday, 16 November 2018

Nicolaas Aartman The Sculptor Receiving Visitors - Drawing



The Sculptor Receiving Visitors.
Nicolaas Aartman (1713 - 93).
Amsterdam.

Mid 18th Century
Drawing
Pen and Black Ink - Brush and Grey Wash.
9.8 x 14.2 cms.
Metropolitan Museum, New York.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335040


Another post in the occasional series of sculpture and sculptors depicted in two dimensions.
A fairly prolific watercolour artist and book illustrator.

The drawing includes a very clumsy depiction of Borghese Gladiator (in the Louvre since 1807).
The assistant appears to be working on a ledger or gravestone.






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