Specifications
Title | Herod's Feast and the Beheading of John the Baptist |
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Material and technique | Pen and black ink, gray wash, squared in black chalk (20 x 20 mm compartments), framing lines with the pen in black ink, on paper in lunette shape |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 268 mm Width 402 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Previously attributed to: Bernard van Orley |
Accession number | N 111 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in circa 1530-1540 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | Serpent, with a flower on top, holding a crest below, an indistinct coat-of-arms probably the town where the paper was made (78x26mm, on P3 from the left, PP33/34mm; vH, ?P), similar to Briquet 13839 (German make, doc. Prague 1549-1595); none in the backing paper (vV, 9P). [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | indeterminable initials (at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), 'L' (AT LOWER LEFT, in pen in bruine inkt), 'Lucas van Leyden 1494-1533 / the Head of St John brought to Herodias / Composition of numerous figures in a court yard / of rich Renaissance architecture. / Indian ink, pen + wash, pointed arch lunette: / from the J.S. Gibson-Craig collection / + H. Gay Hewlett esq.' (verso, at lower left, in pencil) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
Provenance | James T. Gibson-Craig († 1886), Edinburgh, his (†) sale, London (Christie’s), 27 April 1887, no. 199 (Lucas van Leyden); Henry Gay Hewlett, esq. (1832-1897), Addington, Kent, by whom sold (†), (Sir Timothy Eden Bt. of Windlestone, Lady Macdonell et al.), London (Sotheby’s), 28-29 November 1922, no. 37 (Lucas van Leyden), for GBP 23 to Salin [copy RKD]; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1928; on loan to the museum, 1935-1940; purchased with the Koenigs collection by D.G. van Beuningen (1871-1955), Rotterdam and presented to the Stichting Museum Boymans, 1940; on loan to the museum since 1940 |
Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1934, nr. 151 (Bernard van Orley) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Grey wash
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> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |