A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child

School of Rembrandt van Rijn

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A man, possibly a peddler or a street entertainer, gestures animatedly toward a wicker cage housing a marmot or a similar small animal. The woman holding a child in her arms leans forward seemingly intrigued. While Rembrandt rarely treated genre subjects, he did take an interest in street life, depicting such everyday people in a social context. This drawing, probably by one of Rembrandt’s many
pupils, is done in the prevalent reed-pen-and-ink technique; the embellishments in gray wash are by a later hand.

A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child, School of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Reed pen and brown ink, pen and gray washes; verso in pen and dark brown ink., Dutch

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A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child, School of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Reed pen and brown ink, pen and gray washes; verso in pen and dark brown ink., Dutch
A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child, School of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Reed pen and brown ink, pen and gray washes; verso in pen and dark brown ink., Dutch

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