Specifications
| Title | The Baptism of Christ |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink, gray wash, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 310 mm Width 413 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Follower of: Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem |
| Accession number | MB 1705 (PK) |
| Credits | Acquisition unknown, 1934 (?) |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1934 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1625 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Crowned crest, coat of arms of Burgundy and Austria with the Golden Fleece beneath, quartered with heart shield (100x62mm, on P4 from the left, PP29/28mm, upside-down, in the centre of the left half of the sheet; vH, 14P, cropped plano), very similar to Heawood 481 (Schieland 1602 and in Jodocus Hondius, Theatrum Artis Scribendi, Amsterdam 1594), similar to Churchill 266, but without housemark in the lower section of the shield (no place, 1623). This watermark is also found (bisected) in drawings by Karel van Mander in the Museum Boijmans (inv. nos. MB 1717-1728). [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | 'Corn v: Haarlem' (verso, at lower left, in pencil) |
| Mark | none |
| Provenance | unknown, acquired (probably bought) in 1934 |
| Exhibitions | none |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Jaarverslag 1934, p. 3 (Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem); Van Thiel 1965, p. 151 (as Flemish); Van Thiel 1999, p. 498 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
