# The Curious Ones [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRAMER, Leonaert]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Bush and gray ink, gray and brown washes on light brown paper, 391 x 560 mm ## Commentary This drawing \(on five pieces of paper joined\) represents six people gathered before a house in the classicising style of the mid-seventeenth century. The man on the left points out an oversized keyhole to the provocatively attired woman next to him. A similarly dressed woman and a man in fashionable clothing spy through the aperture, which is an actual hole in the centre of the paper. This drawing, together with another of the same dimensions in the Düsseldorf museum, may be a design for the exterior of a perspective box, an object flourished in Holland during the 1650s and 1660s. ## Related artworks - [Anchias Fleeing Troy with His Father and Son]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() - [Concert of Angels \(recto\)]() - [Design for a wall decoration]() - [Figures in a Loggia]() - [Four Latin Fathers of the Church and Saints \(verso\)]() - [Jacob's Dream]() - [Joseph and Potiphar's Wife]() - [Journey of the Three Magi to Bethlehem]() - [Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss on His Horse]() - [Money Combats the World, the Flesh, and the Devil]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()