Specifications
| Title | The Adoration of the Magi |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray ink, gray wash, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in black ink, on ochre prepared paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 277 mm Width 425 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Joachim Wtewael
|
| Accession number | MB 1919 (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1885 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1885 |
| Creation date | in circa 1605-1620 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Standing angel in a circle (43mm, slightly above the centre, on P4 from above, PP30/30; vV, 8P, coarse), this particular type with two spread wings not represented in Briquet or Piccard Online; the type with an angel in a circle, Briquet 639-675, are all Italian, generally second half of the sixteenth century. [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | 'Jochem Wt teuael' (at upper left, in pen and brown ink), 'N1182.' (verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink), 'Jochem Wt.twael fecit, 15-a, No 1' (verso, at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), 'A' (verso, above the preceding, in pencil), undecipherable scribble (verso, at lower right, in pencil) |
| Mark | none |
| Provenance | (?) sale 15 December 1776, no. 213 [museum inventory; the sale has not been traced]; (?) sale 27 April 1847 [museum inventory; the sale has not been traced]; A.J. van Eijndhoven, by whom (Van Eijndhoven, Werneck) sold, Amsterdam (Muller) 23-25 June 1885, no. 345, fl. 7.50, to the museum |
| Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1934a, no. 188; Amsterdam 1939, no. 78d; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 102 |
| External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Jaarverslag 1885, p. 4; cat. 1901, no. 874 (De aanbidding der herders); Lindeman 1929, pp. 63, 121-123, 135, no. T 13 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
