Specifications
| Title | Portrait of a Seated Boy (Jochem Verspronck) |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black and red chalk, brush and gray ink, framing lines with black chalk |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 195 mm Width 139 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jacob Matham
|
| Accession number | H 5 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1622 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Cockatrice (two-legged dragon with a rooster's head and legs) holding a small shield with Basle crozier, indistinct housemark beneath (fragment, lower half) (vV, 8P) (watermark on P5 from the below, bisected on the left margin), similar to Heawood 840-841 (doc. Holland 1619, 1621) and Churchill 285 (Dürr mills, Basle, 1603 ). The same type of watermark is found in a drawing by De Gheyn's (inv. no. H 259) and a drawing by Gillis van Coninxloo (inv.no. N 132). [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in'option] |
| Condition | surface dirt on both sides |
| Inscriptions | 'Jochem Vers(p)ronck / In syn Jonck[heyt?]' (at lower centre, in black chalk), '1622' (verso, at lower centre, in black chalk) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | J. de Vos (L.1450), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-1882), Amsterdam, sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos, F. Muller a.o..) 22 24 May 1883, no. 206 (Hendrick Goltzius, Portrait d’un Garçon), fl. 250; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1923; 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 2010 (coll 2 kw 7); Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 86 |
| Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel VII, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010) Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 3) (2015) |
| External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Sterck 1930, p. 49, no. A (possible portrait of the young Joost van den Vondel, by Hendrick Goltzius); Ekkart 1979, p. 16 (Jochem Verspronck, by Jacob Matham or Cornelis Engelsz); Köhler/Biesboer 2006, p. 147 (Jochem Verspronck, tentatively given to Cornelis Engelsz), p. 324 n. 5 |
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| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |