Specifications
Title | Rocky Landscape with a Fortress |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown and black ink, red and black chalk, laid daown |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 212 mm Width 317 mm |
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Artists |
Attributed to:
Gillis van Coninxloo (II)
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Accession number | N 132 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in circa 1587-1595 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | cockatrice (a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head and legs) holding a small shield with the Basle crozier, a small housemark CH or CR and a trefoil hanging below (82x56mm, between P2-4 from the top, in the centre; vH, 6P, cropped folio), similar to Briquet 1389 (Basle make, doc. Beuggen 1596 and Soleure 1597. The same type of watermark is found in a drawing by Matham (inv. no. H 5) and a drawing by De Gheyn's (inv. no. H 259). [AE] [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'gillis van Coninxlo van Brußel' (on attached piece of paper along the bottom edge, in pen and brown ink), '79626' (verso, at lower right, in black chalk) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | S. von Licht (L.789b), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
Provenance | Dr. Stefan von Licht (1880-1932), Vienna; his sale, Frankfurt am Main (Helbing), 7 December 1927, no. 142; sale (Mos, Nieuwenhuizen Kruseman), Amsterdam (De Vries), 7-8 November 1928, no. 178 (fl. 105 to Van Regteren Altena); J.Q. van Regteren Altena (1899-1980), Amsterdam; art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; 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 | Rotterdam 1934, nr. 16 (Gillis van Coninxloo); Brussels 1935, nr. 487; Rotterdam 2004b; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 72 |
Internal exhibitions |
Het jaar rond met Bol (2004) Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 3) (2015) |
External exhibitions |
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 | Koomen 1934, p. 306 (Gillis van Coninxloo); Wellensiek 1954, p. 187; Wegner 1967, pp. 208, 221(?) (attr. Gillis van Coninxloo) |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Double
> Doubled
> Adding and binding materials
> General technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Double
> Doubled
> Adding and binding materials
> General technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |