Specifications
Title | Man Half Length |
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Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and brown ink, 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 193 mm Width 140 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Roelandt Savery
Previously attributed: Pieter Bruegel (I) |
Accession number | N 126 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in circa 1603-1614 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | Coat of arms, ornamented shield with initial R [?] (fragment, lower part, 34x20 mm, on P4 from below; vV, 7P, quarto). [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'grisse / mael' (at left), 'swardtte mus / grisse rock' (at right), 'nardt hedt leuen' (at lower right; various colour notes, in pen and brown ink), 'Provient de la collection / d’Armand de Mestral- St. Saphorin / 1738-1805 / acheté à un de ses descendants' (verso, at lower centre, in pen and black ink, with paraph of Ch. Eggimann, L.530), '9' (verso, at upper left, in blue pencil, cadred), 'Provient' (verso, at the centre, in pencil), 'fragment de filigrane' (verso, at centre right, note to the tracing in pencil of the watermark), '231/2 30[..]' (verso, at lower centre, in pencil), 'L' (verso, at lower right, in pencil) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | Ch. Eggimann (L.530 twice), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
Provenance | Armand de Mestral St. Saphorin (1738 1805), by descent; acquired by Charles Eggimann (1863 1948), Genève/Paris [inscription on verso]; Mrs. R. Blay, Paris; her sale, Paris (Lair Dubreuil), 4 July 1929, no. 18 (Pieter Bruegel); through art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam, Album V, to Franz W. Koenigs, Haarlem (1881-1941), acquired in 1929 (Pieter Bruegel); 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, no. 10 (as Pieter Bruegel); Rotterdam 1938, no. 248; Rotterdam 1952, no. 20; Rotterdam/New York 2001, no. 131, col.ill (as Roelandt Savery) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | De Tolnay 1935, p. 103, no. 11 (as Pieter Bruegel); De Tolnay 1952, no. A35 (as ‘Apocrief’); Grossmann 1954, pp. 46-48 (as Pieter Bruegel); Münz 1961, no. 114 (as Pieter Bruegel); Kuznetsov 1973, p. 216 (as Roelandt Savery); Spicer-Durham 1979, no. C 222 and p. 227, p. 713; Liess 1981, p. 93 (as Pieter Bruegel); Anonymous 1994, p. 13 (ill.); Sellink in Rotterdam/New York 2001, p. 285 (as Roelandt Savery). |
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