Violin Player Artist's working dates 1650-1699 Netherlands. This sensitive and evocative drawing relates closely to a painting of the same subject. The artist lightly applied black chalk to capture the facial features and hair of his sitter. Compared to the passageís precision, the rest of the composition adopts a relatively abstract style. For example, the violin is only schematically described in outlines, and the viewer is left to imagine the bow that the figure should be holding in his right hand.. Black chalk, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper . Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingeland