Specifications
Title | Adam and Eve |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, red chalk (head of Adam), 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 274 mm Width 235 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jan Harmensz. Muller
Previously attributed: Hendrick Goltzius |
Accession number | MB 1962/T 5 (PK) |
Credits | Purchased 1962 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1962 |
Creation date | in circa 1590 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | none (vH, 8P, very fine paper) |
Inscriptions | 'No 141' [with a double dot below the 'o'] (at lower right, outside the cadre, in pen and brown ink), 'by Jan Muller of Munich, Hundert Meisterzeichnungen 1958, pl. 73' (verso, at lower right, in pencil), 'D25392 LX' (verso, at lower right, partially over the mount, in pencil) |
Mark | none |
Provenance | sale (J. Beitscher et al.), Berlin (Perl), 8-9 November 1926, no. 270; art dealer P&D Colnaghi, London (1962); acquired by the museum, 1962 |
Exhibitions | Antwerp 1982, no. 46; Rotterdam 2010 (coll 2 kw 6); Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 54 |
Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel VI, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010) |
External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Anonymous 1965; Reznicek 1980, p. 131, no. 17, pl. 14 |
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 | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |