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