Specifications
| Title | Six Lions in a Wood |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and black ink, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in black ink, on violet-gray prepared paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 192 mm Width 253 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Meester van de Dood van Absalom
Previously attributed: Hans Bocksberger (I) |
| Accession number | MB 1707 (PK) |
| Credits | Gift G.C.A. Basch, 1930 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1930 |
| Creation date | in circa 1500-1540 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | none (vH, 7P) |
| Inscriptions | none |
| Mark | none |
| Provenance | Art dealer G.C.A. Basch, Rotterdam, by whom presented to the museum, 1930 |
| Exhibitions | Maastricht 2000, no. 10; Girona/Salamanca/Palma de Mallorca 2001, no. D10; Rotterdam 2003; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 22 |
| 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) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Jaarverslag 1930, pp. 5-6 (Melchior Bocksberger); Maastricht 2000, p. 210, nr. 10 (Hans Bocksberger the Elder); Kaeppele 2003, p. 271, nr. 2.6.4 (not Bocksberger); Pokorny 2005, p. 113, n. 4 (Master of Absalom); Pokorny in Bruges 2005, p. 50, n. 4 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
fig. 1 Master of the Death of Absalom. Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban, c. 1500-1525. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 1975.I.863 (Robert Lehman Collection, 1975)[/caption]