Landscape with a Ploughman Driving Two Oxen, and Women Spinning in the Background

Copy after: Niccolò Boldrini (in circa 1540-1575)

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Title	Landscape with a Ploughman Driving Two Oxen, and Women Spinning in the Background
Material and technique	Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 283 mm Width 397 mm
Artists	Copy after: Niccolò Boldrini Designer: Titiaan (Tiziano Vecellio)
Accession number	L 1951/T 7 (PK)
Credits	From the estate of Dr J.C.J. Bierens de Haan, 1951
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1951
Creation date	in circa 1540-1575
Provenance	Sale Amsterdam (De Vries) 01.11.1927, in lot 257 (#anonymous #, Fl 56 to Bierens de Haan); Dr. J.C.J. Bierens de Haan (L.#, #location); Bequest Dr. J.C.J. Bierens de Haan 1951 #CW, ter herinnering: Sale Amsterdam (De Vries) 01.11.1927, lot 257 (with Boldrini print) for DfL. 64,40); Bequest Dr. J.C.J. Bierens de Haan 1951
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Surya Stemerding

This anonymous drawing was copied from a woodcut by Niccolò Boldrini.^[1] The drawing has the same orientation as the print, which means that it cannot be the preliminary drawing. The fact that the composition is identical to the print points to a copy. The drawing was sold at auction together with the print in 1927, which suggests that an earlier collector regarded the drawing as the design.^[2] The inventor of the composition was probably not Boldrini himself, but Titian (c.1488-1576), who is mentioned as such on a mirror-image print dated 1792 by Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (1747-1825).^[3]

Although the drawing was sold in 1927 as ‘anonymous Dutch’, the maker probably came from the Veneto, to judge by the typically Venetian watermark in the paper. The mark was used for centuries, so it provides nothing to go on in terms of dating.

Footnotes

^[1]Inv. BdH 8433; Passavant VI. 242 no. 96. Boldrini produced several of Titian’s inventions in print.

^[2] The description ‘Ajouté le dessin original en même grandeur’ (‘added the original design in the same size’) indicates that at that time the drawing was regarded as a preliminary drawing.

^[3] 'Titiano in[venit]. De Non sc[ulpsit]. 1792'; London, British Museum, inv. X 1.99. The print in London differs in details from both the drawing and the print in Rotterdam. The farmer behind the plough’s hat and garment are not the same and the wheels under the plough are also different.

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