Specifications
| Title | The Exhumation of St Hubert |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 220 mm Width 191 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
After: Rogier van der Weyden |
| Accession number | N 8 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1500 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | none |
| Inscriptions | various colour annotations, all in pen and brown and gray ink: 'wit [?] porg' (at lower left), 'or' (in the bishop’s cloak to the left), 'brun hout' (on the third column to the left), 'vert damast / proper' (on the antependium), 'v[..]table' (above the shrine), 'rouge' (on the retable frame), 'bleu' (on the tabernacle), 'bleu 72 / bl' (on the stairs), 'b' (on the cloth around St Hubert), 'blanc' (on the cloak of the deacon in the front), 'vert / or / rou' (on the shirt of the figure at far right), 'velour blue / [..]' (on the cloak of the bishop at the right), 'perle' (on his mitre), 'blanc' (on the cloak of the deacon behind him), 'blau[..] v[..] (at lower right), 'Quintyn Messis [partly cut off]' (at lower left, in pen and brown ink), pen tests, pencil marks and blue spots (verso) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Johann August Gottlob Weigel (1773-1846), Leipzig; his sale (†), Stuttgart (Gutekunst) 15 May 1883, no. 637 (Quinten Massijs), DM 255.-, to Gutekunst [copy RKD]; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, in or before 1924 [ANM II, 1924, p. 97, under no. 18]; 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 | Antwerp 2002, no. 20 |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Weigel 1836, p. 93, no. 611 (Quinten Massys); Weigel, vol. 11, 1860, (Jan Gossaert after ‘ D. Stuerbout’ ); Weigel 1869, p. 125, no. 873 (Quinten Massys); Wurzbach 1910, pp. 56-57 (Rogier van der Weyden); Winkler 1913, p. 124 (n. 2); Conway 1921, p. 154 (anonymous, 16th Century); ANM II, 1924, p. 97, under no. 18; Winkler 1930, pp. 134, 151 (Master of the Drapery Studies, c. 1500); De Ricci 1931, p. 290-291 (anonymous); Coenen 1932, p. 212; Davies 1945, p. 114; Davies II, 1954, pp. 184, 186, ill. plate CDXXX; Davies 1955, p. 129; Davies 1957, p. 84 (n. 11) (Master of the Drapery Studies); Davies 1968, p. 174; ENP II 1967, p. 63, under no. 18, ill, plate 37a; Sonkes 1969, p. 73-75, no. B20; Davies 1972, p. 220 (Master of the Drapery Studies); De Bosque 1975, p. 279 (niet Quinten Metsys); Comblen-Sonkes in Brussels 1979, p. 78 (anonymous); Campbell 1998, p. 407 under no. NG 783; Kemperdick 1999, p. 21; Koreny and Zeman in Antwerp 2002, no. 20; De Vos 2002, p. 26; Kemperdick in Frankfurt/Berlin 2008, p. 111 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
fig. 1 Studio Rogier van der Weyden. The Exhumation of Saint Hubert, c. 1440. London, National Gallery, inv. no. NG 783[/caption]
