Specifications
Title | Study Sheet with the Heads of an Old Man, a Boy and a Woman |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown ink on brownish paper |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 205 mm Width 184 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jacques de Gheyn (II)
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Accession number | H 259 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in circa 1600-1610 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | cockatrice (a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head and legs) holding a small shield with the Basle crozier (fragment, lower part with housemark cut off, 80x55 mm, on P3-5 from below, on the right edge, below the young man’s arm; vV, 8P, very fine, quarto), partially obscured by the hatched section, similar to Churchill 285 (Dürr Mills, Basle, doc. 1603) and Heawood 840-841 (doc. Holland 1619, 1621). The same type of watermark is found in a drawing by Matham (inv. no. H 5) and a drawing by Gillis van Coninxloo (inv. no. N 132). [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'nen S[g of y]' (at lower right, in pen and brown ink) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
Provenance | 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 | Dijon 1950, no. 58; Rotterdam 1952, no. 31; Rotterdam/Washington 1985, no. 47; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 4); Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 83 |
Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel IV, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) |
External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Van Regteren Altena 1936, pp. 47-48; Haverkamp Begemann 1957, no. 13; Paris 1972, p. 30 (under no. 58); Boon 1978, p. 75 (under no. 215); Van Regteren Altena 1983, vol. 2, no. 772, p. 89 (under no. 541), p. 113 (under no. 692), p. 121 (under no. 735); Boon 1978, p. 75 (under no. 215); Paris 1985, p. 53 (n. 13); Boon 1992, p. 168 (n. 12) |
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Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |