Eight Elephants | Gerard van Groeningen | 1563 | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
“In September 1563 there was a male elephant in Antwerp. The artist Gerard van Groeningen seized his chance to draw the animal in various positions. Afterwards he combined his sketches into one etching, so that it looked like eight different elephants in the wild. Rembrandt did the same thing three quarters of a century later: he drew an elephant named Hasken in three positions and combined his sketches in one drawing”
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