Specifications
| Title | The Mountain gave Birth to a Mouse |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), pen and brown ink, gray wash, framing lines with the pen in brown ink (by the artist) |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 127 mm Width 180 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
David Vinckboons (I)
|
| Accession number | MB 1948/T 17 (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1947 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1947 |
| Creation date | in 1611 |
| Signature | 'DvB [ligature] / 1611' monogrammed and dated (at lower left, in pen and brown ink) |
| Watermark | three balls (fragment, probably the bottom part of a Foolscap, top left edge, 14x16 mm, on P2-3 from the left; vH, 8P). [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Condition | paper and glue residues (verso) |
| Inscriptions | none |
| Mark | none |
| Provenance | art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; acquired by the museum, 1947 |
| Exhibitions | ’s-Hertogenbosch 2006; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 90 |
| External exhibitions |
De verbeelding van de Nederlandse spreekwoorden (2006) 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 | Wegner/Pée 1980, pp. 101-102, no. 55 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
