Portrait of a Boy

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Title	Portrait of a Boy
Material and technique	Black chalk, framing line (partial) in black chalk, on an oval piece of paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Diameter 106 cm
Artists	Draughtsman: Anoniem Previously attributed to: Jacques de Gheyn (I)
Accession number	MB 1736 (PK)
Credits	From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1847
Creation date	in circa 1600-1700
Signature	none
Watermark	none (vH, 5P, very fine)
Inscriptions	'a' (verso, at centre left, in black chalk or pencil), 'r o s 4 (?) / N40' (verso, at lower left, in black chalk or pencil)
Collector	Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans
Mark	C. Ploos van Amstel (L.2118a)
Provenance	Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), Amsterdam, (?) his (†) sale, Amsterdam (Van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 [no. not found]; Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767 1847), Utrecht (L.1857); bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; on loan to the museum since 1849
Exhibitions	none
Research	Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Literature	cat. 1852, no. 847 (as Aegidius Sadeler); cat. 1869, no. 724; cat. 1901, no. 753 (fl. 35); Bruyn 1959, p. 62 (under no. 111); Schapelhouman/Schatborn 1998, p. 204 (nr. 1) (under no. 457)
Material	Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Netherlandish Drawings of the 15th and 16th Centuries.

Author: Yvonne Bleyerveld

This description is currently only available in Dutch.

Dit jongensportret is een kopie naar een tekening in het Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, die aanvankelijk aan Jacques de Gheyn toegeschreven werd en later aan Aegidius Sadeler (ca. 1570-1629).¹ Hetzelfde jongetje, maar dan in een andere pose, is uitgebeeld op een anonieme tekening in Amsterdam.²

Footnotes

¹ Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, inv. nr. 82-kl. 1-19; H.P. Bremmer, Beeldende kunst 7 (1920), aflevering 9, nr. 65, als Jacob de Gheyn; Bruyn 1959, nr. 111, als Aegidius Sadeler. Niet bekend is waar deze toeschrijvingen op gebaseerd zijn.

² Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. nr. RP-T-1898-A-3745; Schapelhouman/Schatborn 1998, nr. 457.

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