Seated Woman Searching for Fleas
c. 1671
Adriaen van de Velde
Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672)
Drawings
Seated Woman Searching for Fleas, c. 1671. Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672). Red chalk over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.); secondary support: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1966.239 Considered mere nuisances for those living in close proximity to animals, fleas would only become known as carriers of such illnesses as the bubonic plague almost 200 years after this drawing was made.
- Maker/Artist
- Velde, Adriaen van de
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- red chalk over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: upper left, in blue pencil: VX ; VERSO OF QUATERNARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: [mln?][upside down]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1966.239
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Stories From Storage
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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