Specifications
Title | The Brazen Serpent |
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Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink, gray and brown wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer, framing lines with the pen in brown ink, on paper, prepared red on the reverse |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 191 mm Width 279 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Chrispijn van den Broeck
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Accession number | MB 1698 (PK) |
Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1847 |
Creation date | in circa 1575 |
Signature | ‘Crispiaen fasal [?]’ (at lower centre, in pen and gray ink) |
Watermark | none (vV, 9P) |
Inscriptions | ‘4’ (verso, at upper centre, in pencil) |
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 | Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 47 |
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. 647 (Crispijn de Passe); cat. 1869, nor. 527 (Crispijn de Passe); Wescher 1974, pp. 182, 183 (ill. 7); Mielke 1975, pp. 65 (ill. 57), 67; Hollstein XXI, 1980, p. 94, under no. 65; Brugerolles 2009, pp. 462-463; Hamburg 2011, I, p. 146, under no. 167; New Hollstein 2011b, vol. I, pp. xxv, xxxi, 53, under no. 65 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |