Young Man in a Study
Painter: Adriaen van Gaesbeeck
Year:
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Medium: oil on panel
Description: Boy standing in front of a work table in an interior of a study. On the table an open book, map, lute, inkstand, globe and a statue of Venus. Against the wall shelves with books and a map on scrolls. In the foreground on the floor are a book, a map and a plaster head. On the right a staircase to the upper floor, on the stairs a maid walks with a book under her arm. In the center a column from which hangs a painting with a portrait of a child. Previously, the boy was mistakenly identified as Hugo de Groot.
