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Shepherd Seated on a Hill Playing his Flute

Shepherd Seated on a Hill Playing his Flute

Anoniem (in circa 1600-1650)

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Title Shepherd Seated on a Hill Playing his Flute
Material and technique Pen and brown ink
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 139 mm
Width 131 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Anoniem
Copy after: Hendrick Goltzius
Accession number D I 267 (PK)
Credits Loan Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (former Koenigs collection), 2004
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 2004
Creation date in circa 1600-1650
Signature none
Watermark none (vV, 7P, very fine)
Inscriptions '120' (at lower centre, in pencil, partially erased)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, acquired in 192#; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940; unlawfully sold to the Nazi's in 1940; stored in Dresden (1941-45); seized by the Soviet Army’s Trophy Division; deposited in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and afterwards in the Bogdan & Varvara Khanenko Museum, Kyiv; restituted to The Netherlands by Ukraine in 2004; on loan from The Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE), 2004
Research Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
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Entry catalogue Netherlandish Drawings of the 15th and 16th Centuries.

Author: Yvonne Bleyerveld

This description is currently only available in Dutch.

Dit is een kopie van de fluitspelende Mercurius op de gravure met Mercurius en Argus, die Hendrick Goltzius in 1589-1590 ontwierp en die behoort tot een prentenreeks met 52 voorstellingen uit Ovidius’ Metamorphosen.1 De eerste veertig prenten werden gegraveerd door Goltzius’ medewerkers. Later, in 1615, voegde Robert de Baudous nog twaalf gravures aan de reeks toe (zie ook inv. nr. MB 1750).

Op de tekening ontbreekt Mercurius’ slangenstaf, zijn vaste attribuut dat op Goltzius’ gravure naast hem tegen het heuveltje staat. Hierdoor is de boodschapper van de goden veranderd in een anonieme, arcadische herder, die met zijn slappe hoed en schuin omgehangen herderstas, een deuntje fluit.

Footnotes

1 New Hollstein 2012, nrs. 532-583. Mercurius en Argus: New Hollstein 2012, nr. 548. Over deze reeks Filedt Kok 1993, p. 176 en Amsterdam/New York/Toledo 2003, nr. 38.

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