Specifications
Title | The Adoration of the Shepherds |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 308 mm Width 403 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Previously attributed: Joachim Wtewael |
Accession number | MB 1955/T 8 (PK) |
Credits | Purchased 1955 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1955 |
Creation date | in circa 1600-1625 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | Cockatrice (two-legged dragon with a rooster’s head and legs) holding a small shield with the Basle crozier, and beneath a housemark, consisting of initials PP or RP, with a Latin cross and three balls (97x54mm, on P4-5 from the right, in the centre of the right half of the sheet; vH, 17P, fine paper, cropped plano, somewhat similar to Briquet 1389 (Basle make, doc. Beuggen 1596 and Soleure 1597) and 1390 (doc. St-Morand 1597). [AE] [for image of detail click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'Both' (at lower left, in pen and brown ink |
Mark | none |
Provenance | Galerie Les Tourette, Basel/Wertheimer/Paris; acquired by the museum, 1955 |
Exhibitions | none |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Jaarverslag 1955, p. 6 (Joachim Wtewael); Ketelsen/Hahn 2011, p. 341 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |