Keywords: The Sleeping Student (Constantin Verhout) - Nationalmuseum - 17680.tif Constantin Verhout en The Sleeping Student A student has fallen asleep in a chair On the table are gloves writing materials and books The focus is on the pile of books with its intricate play of light and shadow that creates a tension in the picture The painting has been interpreted as conveying a moral message about the importanceof making proper use of one s time But when it was brought to attention in the major Rembrandt exhibition in 1992 interest in the work was also prompted by associations with a modern esthetic the arrangement of piled-up books recalled a stylised idiom akin to modernism En student har somnat i en stol PÄ bordet ligger handskar skrivdon och böcker MÄlningens fokus Àr riktat mot boktraven dÀr det intrikata spelet mellan ljus och skugga skapar en spÀnning i bilden MÄlningen har tolkats som moraliserande om vikten av att rÀtt bruka tiden Men nÀr den lyftes fram vid den stora RembrandtutstÀllningen 1992 föranleddes intresset ocksÄ av associationer till en modern estetik arrangemanget med de uppstaplade böckerna pÄminde om ett stiliserat formsprÄk beslÀktat med modernismen header A student has fallen asleep in a chair On the table are gloves writing materials and books The focus is on the pile of books with its intricate play of light and shadow that creates a tension in the picture The painting has been interpreted as conveying a moral message about the importanceof making proper use of one s time But when it was brought to attention in the major Rembrandt exhibition in 1992 interest in the work was also prompted by associations with a modern esthetic the arrangement of piled-up books recalled a stylised idiom akin to modernism En student har somnat i en stol PÄ bordet ligger handskar skrivdon och böcker MÄlningens fokus Àr riktat mot boktraven dÀr det intrikata spelet mellan ljus och skugga skapar en spÀnning i bilden MÄlningen har tolkats som moraliserande om vikten av att rÀtt bruka tiden Men nÀr den lyftes fram vid den stora RembrandtutstÀllningen 1992 föranleddes intresset ocksÄ av associationer till en modern estetik arrangemanget med de uppstaplade böckerna pÄminde om ett stiliserat formsprÄk beslÀktat med modernismen 1663 Oil on wood Olja pÄ trÀ Size cm 31 38 Framed Size cm 50 58 6 Institution Nationalmuseum Stockholm Signerad C Verhout accession number 17680 NM 677 place of creation Cecilia Heisser / Nationalmuseum credit line Nationalmuseum Stockholm cooperation project Licensed-PD-Art PD-old-auto PD-Nationalmuseum_Stockholm Media contributed by Nationalmuseum Stockholm 2016-10 Media contributed by Nationalmuseum Stockholm improve categories Media contributed by Nationalmuseum Stockholm add artist cat and commonscat to artist on wikidata Paintings in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm |