Specifications
Title | The Beheading of Bishop Udo of Magdeburg |
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Material and technique | Pen and black ink, framing lines with red chalk and pen in brown ink |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 268 mm Width 205 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Previously attributed: Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen Previously attributed: Jan Gossart |
Accession number | N 83 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in circa 1510-1520 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | Gothic letter P, surmounted by a quadrifoil (57x15mm, between P5-6, PP25mm; vH, 9P, fine, cropped folio), similar to Piccard Online 109731 (doc. Ghent 1541), 109840 (doc. Brussels 1541), 109839 (doc. Xanten 1532) and 109752 (doc. Arnhem 1508) and the watermark found in a drawing by Pieter Cornelisz Kunst in the museum collection (inv. no. N 11). [AE] [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
Condition | horizontal fold along the centre, narrow vertical tear at lower right |
Inscriptions | 'I. M: / .1503.' (at lower left, in pen and lightbrown ink), 'no 55' (verso, at upper left, in pencil), 'Jacob van Amsterdam / navh[?] Lippmann / Die Enthauptung Udo’s / Erzbischof’s v. Magdeburg / coll. Ploos v. Amstel/Amsler * / gutekunst' (verso, at lower centre and at lower right, in pencil), 'ox 10' (verso, at lower left, in pencil), 'go[..]. P' (verso, at lower centre, in pencil), 'Israel van [..]nts/geb [..] / [..] / [..] / A. No 3' (verso, at lower left, in pen and red ink) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | C. Ploos van Amstel (L.2034) en (L.2118a), A. von Lanna (L.2773), F.W. Koenigs ( L.1023a) |
Provenance | Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), Amsterdam (L. 3002); (?) his (†) sale, Amsterdam (Van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800, Album OO, no. 33 (‘Een ryke ordonnantie van verscheydene beelden; met de pen, O.I. inkt en wit gehoogd, door J. Cornelisz. van Oostzaan’), fl. 2.15 to Jozi (‘3u’?) [copy RKD]; Amsler [inscription on verso]; Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague, his (†) sale Stuttgart (Gutekunst) 6-11 May 1910, no. 321 (Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen), RM 2250 to Albertina; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1926 (attributed to Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen); 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 | Rotterdam 1936, no. 32 (Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Schönbrunner/Meder, dl. 12, 1908, no. 1392 (Anonymous, 16th Century); Steinbart 1929, pp. 214-215, 258 (Jacob Cornelisz van Oostzanen); Steinbart 1937, p. 15 |
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Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |