Study of legs, feet, and a young man leaning
Rijksmuseum

Study of legs, feet, and a young man leaning

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Rijksmuseum

This study is a good example of the kind of sketches that artists kept in their ‘artistic archive’. They could draw from it at will when composing a painting or a sculpture. Bloemaert used this study for his painting The Adoration of the Shepherds (Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover).

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