Specifications
| Title | Raid on Travelers |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and gray ink, gray and brown wash, framing lines with the pen in gray ink |
| Object type |
Drawing (recto)
> Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 189 mm Width 314 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Circle of: Sebastiaan Vrancx School of: Jan Brueghel (I) |
| Accession number | MB 1694 recto (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1847 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1650 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Coat of arms with an indistinct housemark below (53x49mm the shield only, on P4-5 from the top, near the centre, beneath the man taken prisoner; vV, 7P, cropped folio), quarterly: Strasburg bend in 1 and 4, the figures in 2 and 3 are difficult to distinguish, because the drawing obscures the view; possibly a rampant lion in 2. and an emerging lion on waves in 3, similar to the watermark found in three other drawings in the museum’s collection (inv. nos. JMat 2, MB 1980/T 2 and CCW 1: coat of arms of an unidentified family (Baden-Hochberg according to Briquet vol. 1, p. 89, but this family has another coat of arms), similar to Briquet 1075 (probably papermaker BL in Ettlingen, below Karlsruhe, county of Baden, Germany; doc. 1589-1601 but used well into the 17th c., o.a. doc. Utrecht 1589-1602, Leiden 1597; Briquet vol. I, p. 89)) and Heawood 602-604 (with other initials; doc. resp. Holland 1604, 1611, 1627) and 605 (without the bend but with the same initials BL in ligature; doc. Holland 1611). [AE] [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | 'Breugle de Velours' (at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), '83' (verso, at lower centre, in pencil), '[..]' (indecipherable writing, verso, at upper left, in pen and gray ink) |
| Collector | Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans |
| Mark | unknown collector 'JC' or 'IHC' (in ligature, not in Lugt), Museum Boymans (L.1857) |
| Provenance | F.J.O. Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht; bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; on permanent loan to the museum since 1849 |
| Exhibitions | none |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | cat. 1852 no. 188 (as Jan Brueghel); cat. 1869 no. 47; cat. 1901, no. 83 (fl. 100,-) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
