Specifications
Title | The Three Magi |
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Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and brown ink, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in brown ink, on gray paper |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 141 mm Width 189 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jacques de Gheyn (II)
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Accession number | MB 1713 (PK) |
Credits | Gift I.M. Hudig, 1926 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1926 |
Creation date | in circa 1600-1629 |
Signature | 'JDG' [ligature] monogrammed (lower centre, in pen and brown ink) |
Watermark | none (vV, 7P) |
Inscriptions | 'Vente de A G. de Visser Bellart 1869 / no. 126 du catalogue / Jaques de Gheyn' (verso, at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), 'n x y, Fl en me–' (verso, at lower left, in pencil), 'Les Rois Magis' (verso, at lower right, in pencil) |
Mark | W. Pitcairn Knowles (L.2643) |
Provenance | Sale, The Hague (De Visser), 8 March 1869, no. 126 (‘Les trois mages’, fl. 10)[copy RKD]; Ignatius F. Ellinckhuysen (1814-1897), Rotterdam, his sale Amsterdam (Muller/Van Gogh), 16-17 April 1879, no. 100 (fl. 18, ¼, to V[isser])[copy RKD]; A.G. de Visser, The Hague, his sale, Amsterdam (Muller), 16 May 1881, no. 143 (fl. 40 to Pitcairn Knowles)[copy RKD]; William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-1894), Rotterdam/ Wiesbaden, his sale, Amsterdam (Muller) 25-26 June 1895, no. 250 (fl. 10 to Muller)[copy RKD]; W.F. Piek [sale catalogue 1913]; Vincent van Gogh, his sale, Amsterdam (De Vries), 2-3 December 1913, no. 315 (fl. 41 to Van Hamel, Deventer)[copy RKD]; I.M. Hudig, Rotterdam, by whom presented to the museum, 1926 |
Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1939, no. 79i; Rotterdam 1952, no. 29; Prague 1966, no. 35; Paris 1974, no. 39; Rotterdam/Washington 1985, no. 43; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 84 |
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 1926, p. 6; Van Gelder 1928, p. 178; Van Regteren Altena 1936, p. 42; Haverkamp Begemann 1957, no. 12; Judson 1973, p. 34; Van Regteren Altena 1983, vol. 1, pp. 107-108, vol. 2, no. 33, p. 177, under no. 106, vol 3, pl. 248; Amsterdam 2008, pp. 42-43; Massing 2011, pp. 273-274 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Heightened with white
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |