Still Life with Two Children Feeding Goats
1601 to 1650
Medium
black and white chalk on faded blue paper
Dimensions
overall: 27.1 x 39 cm (10 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1985.7.3
Art Historical Context
Jan Fyt (1611–1661) was a leading Flemish Baroque artist celebrated for his vivid animal studies and still-life compositions. Active in Antwerp during the first half of the seventeenth century, he often portrayed domestic and wild creatures with remarkable naturalism, reflecting the period’s growing interest in empirical observation of the natural world. “Still Life with Two Children Feeding Goats” exemplifies this focus, capturing a quiet pastoral moment in which two young figures tend to their lively charges. Executed in black and white chalk on faded blue paper, the drawing demonstrates Fy...