A Group of Standing Monks and other Figures 1630 - 1640

This drawing, "A Group of Standing Monks and other Figures," was created by Dutch artist Jan Lievens between 1630 and 1640. It is a pen and brown ink study on paper. Lievens was a contemporary and close friend of Rembrandt van Rijn, and the drawing shows similar stylistic influences in the use of light and shadow to model the figures. The drawing, located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is a valuable example of Lievens’s skill in capturing human form through the medium of drawing.