Adriaen van Ostade, detail, The Painter in His Studio, c. 1667, etching, 210 x 169 mm,New York, The
Adriaen van Ostade, detail, The Painter in His Studio, c. 1667, etching, 210 x 169 mm,New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917While the painter works, leaning his right hand on the mall stick for stability, two young hands work in the background preparing paints and brushes. In the lower left corner are some wood panels stacked against a cabinet. Wood panels were gradually substituted by canvas as the preferred support for painting during the sixteenth century.On the stool to the right of the painter, we see an open book. This is probably book of prints which painters used as a source of inspiration for their works or a sketchbook containing anatomical studies, also a common item in painters’ studios. -- source link
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