Specifications
Title | Mercury |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, brown wash |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 243 mm Width 195 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Gerrit Pietersz.
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Accession number | MB 1975/T 28 recto (PK) |
Credits | Purchased 1975 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1975 |
Creation date | in circa 1591-1593 |
Signature | signed and annotated 'Sr Vianen laet u / desen mercurius inde Engelen / banck leijden /GP [ligature]' (recto, at upper right, in pen and brown ink) |
Watermark | small crowned letter B (44x26mm, near the centre, on P3-4 from the left; vH, 7P, folio). [AE] [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'Disz hat heer Cornelis / Poelemberg gezeignet / und her Vianen geschickt zum Celaino' (at lower left, in pen and brown ink, by a later hand), 'Aen de Eersamen Jongman / Adam van Vianen / tot Utrecht' (verso, at centre left, in pen and brown ink), '28' (verso, at upper left, in pencil, circled), '19 x 12 1/2 [..]' (verso, below the preceding, in pencil) |
Mark | E.J. Otto (L.873b) |
Provenance | Ernst Jürgen Otto (20th c.), Celle (near Hannover); art dealer P&D Colnaghi, London (1960); (?) E. Perman, Stockholm, his sale, Amsterdam (Mak van Waay), 10 June 1975, no. 9 (Gerrit Pietersz), acquired by the museum |
Exhibitions | New Brunswick 1983, no. 98; Utrecht 1984, no. 128, fig. 16; Washington/New York 1986, no. 95; Amsterdam 1993, no. 37; Florence 2000, no. 51; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 55 |
Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel II, 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 | Ter Molen 1984, vol. 1, p. 31, 67, 97, n. 399; W. Robinson in Washington/New York 1986, no. 95; Van Thiel 1987, pp. 357-359, 367, n. 16; Boon 1992, p. 287, under no. 158; Amsterdam 1993, no. 37; Turner 1996, vol. 24, p. 778: Van Thiel 1999, pp. 74, 168 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |