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Study for a Personification of Medicine

Study for a Personification of Medicine

Peter de Witte (I) (in circa 1614-1615)

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Title Study for a Personification of Medicine
Material and technique Black chalk (traces), red chalk, heightened with white, squared with black chalk, on beige prepared paper
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 138 mm
Width 122 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Peter de Witte (I)
Accession number I 411 (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1614-1615
Signature none
Watermark none (vV, 6P)
Inscriptions 'N 38' (verso, at lower centre, in blue chalk)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions Munich 1978, no. 33; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 106
Internal exhibitions Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 2) (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 Munich 1978, no. 33 (Study for Allegory of Prudentia); Van der Heiden 1979, p. 108; B. Volk-Knüttel in Bauer/Rupprecht (eds.) 1989, p. 178 (study for ‘Figur mit Äskulapstab’); Volk-Knüttel 2010, pp. 286-287, no. Z 69, ill. 211
Material
Object
Technique
Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

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Peter de Witte (I)

Brugge 1540/48, ca - München 1628/03

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