Specifications
| Title | Mountain Landscape with a Ruin |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash, framing lines (partial) 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 187 mm Width 309 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Previously attributed: Peter Stevens (II) |
| Accession number | D I 96 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (former Koenigs collection), 2004 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 2004 |
| Creation date | in 1595 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Coat of arms, ornamented shield with three towers on top of a water gateway, with a fish below (91x63 mm, in the centre, on P3-5 from above; vV, 7P, folio), very similar to Briquet 2347 (arms of the German city of Wernigerode in the Harz area, produced in one of the two local papermills, owned by the families Rethmer and Runge, doc. Bremen 1597, Brunswick 1598, Halberstadt 1599, Zell and Soltau 1600). [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | 'dmi' or 'dnu [?]', '22 Maijn .1.5.9.5' (at lower centre, on separate strip, in pen and brown ink), '448' (verso, at lower right, in pencil) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | J. Gulston or Comte de Caylus (L.474, as Pseudo-Crozat), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Anonymous collector (L.474); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem (German, 1595); 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; unlawfully acquired by the Nazi’s, 1940 as part of a group of 528 drawings and transported to Dresden; where looted by the Red Army, 1945 and brought to Kiev, together with 138 other drawings and 3 prints, 1947; restituted to the state of The Netherlands, 2004; on loan to the museum since 2004 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 2004, no 138 |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Elen 1989, no 29 (as ‘German, 1595’); Elen 2004, p. 22 and no 138, col.ill |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Blue wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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