Specifications
| Title | Belgica Florens - Belgica Destructa: Allegory on the Prosperity and Decline of the Low Countries |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and gray ink, gray wash, indented for transfer, framing lines in pencil with pen and brown ink, on paper with pointed top, the reverse prepared with red chalk |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 243 mm Width 162 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Maerten de Vos
|
| Accession number | M de Vos 1 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1847 |
| Creation date | in 1585 |
| Signature | 'M.D.VOS F. 1585' signed and dated (at lower right, in pen and gray ink) |
| Watermark | none (vH, 8P) |
| Condition | water stain at lower right, clearly visible on the reverse. The paper is smudged all-over and has been folded three times |
| Inscriptions | none |
| Collector | Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans |
| Mark | Museum Boymans (L.1857) |
| Provenance | F.J.O. Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht; bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; in the museum since its foundation, 1849 |
| Exhibitions | Antwerp 1993b, no. 132, ill.; Rotterdam 2007 (coll 1 kw 4); Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 60 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Het jaar rond met Bol (2004) 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 | cat. 1852, no. 1091; cat. 1869, no. 1493; cat. 1901, p. 66, no. 924; Reinsch 1967, pp. 170-171, no. 109; McGrath 1975, pp. 186-187, n. 24, ill. 32d; Zweite 1980, pp. 178-179; Van der Heijden 1998, p. 209; New Hollstein 2009, p. 241 under no. 118; Yasui 2009, pp. 12-13, 18, ill. 5 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
fig. 1 Sons, & Stewart, G. Waterston. Reproduction of the allegory on the rise and fall of the Netherlands. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-OB-79.649 [/caption]