Specifications
| Title | Anchoress Kneeling and Praying in Front of Her Cave |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and brown ink, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 128 mm Width 86 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Abraham Bloemaert
|
| Accession number | AB 5 (PK) |
| Credits | Gift C. Schuurmans-Ripping, 1879 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1879 |
| Creation date | in circa 1610-1612 |
| Watermark | none (vH, 4P) |
| Inscriptions | '[….]illi offerat librum […]' (partially unreadable; verso, along the top edge, in pen and brown ink, in an old hand), '5' and '569' (verso, centre, in black chalk), '4/10' (verso, left edge, in pen and brown ink), below that '708' (verso, left edge, in black chalk, '6 6' or 'C C ' (verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink), 'A Bloemaart/ 495.v.D.2[…]/ K/35,- R/13,-/ […] ' (partially unreadable; verso, below centre, in black chalk), '2' (verso, at lower right, in pen and brown ink) |
| Mark | Museum Boymans (L.1855a) |
| Provenance | (?) Valerius Röver (1686 1739), Delft, (†) inventory, Portfolio, p. 12, no. 10 (‘Dezelfde Biddende voor een Crucifix, op dezelvde Carton Een Dito kleijnder’) [UB Amsterdam, inv.nr. II A 173 e]; Cornelia Schuurmans-Ripping (1802-1883), Rotterdam, by whom presented to the museum, 1879 |
| Exhibitions | none |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Jaarverslag 1879, p 5, cat. 1901, no. 39 (f. 5,-); Beck 1982, p. 120 (no. 4/10), p. 123 (n. 8); Bolten 2007, no. 480, ill |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
