# Four Studies of Frogs [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHEYN, Jacob de II]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen and brush, 142 x 196 mm ## Commentary This is one of De Gheyn's most characteristic animal drawings. The frogs are observed with great accuracy, although only the one in the top right-hand corner is in a natural pose. It is not known whether the artist used stuffed frogs or live ones pinned in place. At the beginning of the seventeenth century there was considerable interest in faithful depictions of nature, as well as in nature itself. De Gheyn, and his tutor Hendrick Goltzius, are among the great Dutch painters of animals. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Transience]() - [Farm with a Man Milking a Cow]() - [Four Studies of a Woman]() - [Hippocrates Visits Democritus]() - [Neptune and Amphitrite]() - [Peaceful Couple]() - [Studies of heads]() - [The Exercise of Armes \(details\)]() - [Two Witches with a Cat]() - [Vanitas Still-Life \(detail\)]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()