Standing Boy with a Hobby-horse Stick (dummy board)
Dutch School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1699
Materials
Oil on wood
Measurements
1135 x 515 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171015.1
Caption
Dummy boards are flat, oil-painted wooden figures in the shape of children, servants, soldiers or animals. Dummy boards were often found in entrance halls or in front of fireplaces. The use of illusionistic painted figures as a form of interior decoration can be linked to the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish tradition of trompe l’oeil painting.
Summary
Oil painting on wood, Standing Boy with a Hobby-horse Stick (dummy board), Dutch School, mid 17th century. One of a pair of mid-17th century Dutch painted dummy board figures of children. A boy wearing wide-brimmed hat, doublet and skirts with lace ruff and cuffs, holding a golf club in his right hand and an apple in his left. See same figure at Hinton Ampner NT 1529871.1.
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Dutch School, artist Flemish School, artist