Specifications
Title | The Circumcision |
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Material and technique | Pen and two shades of brown ink, pen and black ink, indented, framing lines with the pen in brown ink; on the reverse traces of black chalk for transfer |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 196 mm Width 250 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Maarten van Heemskerck
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Accession number | N 130 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in 1564 |
Signature | 'Martijn van Heemskerck inventor x 1564' signed and dated (at lower right, in pen and brown ink) |
Watermark | unidentified small countermark, probably initials or a housemark (13x11mm, between P3-4 from the top, in the centre; vV, 7P, PP27mm). [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'Y cn/Cat Braamcamp / Amsted [abbreviation of Amsterdam] aug 1771 N 113' (verso, at lower centre, in graphite, by J. van der Marck, L.3001) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | J. van der Marck (L.3001), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
Provenance | Gerrit Braamcamp (1699-1771); his sale (†), Amsterdam (Van der Schley et al.), 31 July 1771 sqq., ‘Konstboek’ B, no. 113 (‘Twee Geschiedenissen uit de H Schrift: zeer kunstig en uitvoerig getekend met de Pen, door M. V. HEEMSKERCK. 1562’, fl. 1,10 to Van der Marck [copy RKD]; Johannes van der Marck Aegidusz (1707-1772), Leiden; his sale (†), Amsterdam (De Winter/Yver) 29 November 1773 sqq., no. 958 (‘Een Besnydenis, als vooren’, together with nos. 955-957, fl. 7,10 to Van der Vinne)[copy RKD]; Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne (1736-1811), Haarlem; by whom [et al.] sold (†), Haarlem (Hendriks), 11 March 1816 sqq., ‘Kunstboek’ B, possibly no. 17 (‘Twee stuks Bijbelsche Historien, met de pen, door M. Heemskerk’, fl. 11,10)[copy RKD]; Sale (Mos, Nieuwenhuizen Kruseman), Amsterdam (De Vries), 7-8 November 1928, no. 314 (after sale to art dealer Nicolaas Beets for Koenigs); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem; 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, no. 123; Alkmaar 1950, no. 36; Washington/New York/Minneapolis 1958, no. 21 |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Hoetink 1961, p. 22, no. 7; Veldman 1986b, p. 267; New Hollstein 1993-94, vol. 2, p. 81, under no. 376; New Hollstein 1999b, vol. I, p. 142, under no. 56 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |