Specifications
Title | Two Men Standing |
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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 176 mm Width 129 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Roelandt Savery
Previously attributed: Pieter Bruegel (I) |
Accession number | MB 1958/T 27 (PK) |
Credits | Acquired with the collection of D.G. Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1958 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1958 |
Creation date | in circa 1603-1614 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | none (vV, 6P), countermark (fragment EW, at lower left) |
Inscriptions | '[..]rvo' and '[..]te' (along the left edge, partially cut off, in pen and brown ink, possibly colour notes), 'swardtt / hoedt', 'vÿlle / roede / rock', 'grÿsse / broeck' and 'wÿdtte / kousen' (colour notes, at the right, in pen and brown ink), unreadable scribbles (verso, below, in pencil), 'H. Bol' (verso, at centre right, in pencil), '10' (verso, at upper right, in pencil) |
Collector | Collector / D.G. van Beuningen, Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | E. Wauters (L.912), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a), D.G. van Beuningen (L.3920) |
Provenance | Emile Wauters (1846-1933), Paris, his sale, Amsterdam (Muller), 15-16 June 1926, no. 30 (Pieter Bruegel); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1926 (Pieter Bruegel); on loan to the museum, 1935-1940; purchased with the Koenigs collection by D.G. van Beuningen (1871-1955), Rotterdam, 1940; Van Beuningen heirs; acquired with the Van Beuningen collection by the City of Rotterdam for the museum, 1958 |
Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1929, no. 178 (Pieter Bruegel); Rotterdam 1934, no. 9; Brussels 1935, no. 474; Paris 1935, no. 169; Rotterdam 1938, no. 247; Rotterdam/New York 2001, no. 132, col.ill (Roelandt Savery); Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 3) |
Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel III, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) |
External exhibitions |
Roelant Savery's Wonderlijke Wereld (2024) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Lees 1913, pp. 67-68, 183, no. 80 (Pieter Bruegel); Tolnai 1925, p. 75 (‘apokryph’); Tolnai 1929, p. 209 (Pieter Bruegel); De Tolnay 1935, p. 103, no. 13; Hannema 1949, no. 155; Besançon 1950, p. 69; De Tolnay 1952, no. 106; Lugt (suppl. 1956), p. 132 ('P. Bruegel, Étude de deux paysans', fl. 5.300); Münz 1961, no. 111; Spicer-Durham 1979, no. C 218 (Roelandt Savery); Liess 1981, pp. 92, 93 (Pieter Bruegel, reworked by another hand); Peatherbridge 2010, p. 355, ill. 257 |
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