Specifications
| Title | Study after a Bust of the 'Pseudo-Seneca' |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, framing lines (partial) in black chalk, on gray paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 122 mm Width 77 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jacques de Gheyn (II)
|
| Accession number | MB 1737 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1847 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1629 |
| Signature | monogrammed 'IDG' (at lower right, in pen and brown ink) |
| Watermark | impossible to determine because of the coarse quality paper and the preparation (vV, ?P) |
| Condition | recto: rust hole at centre left; verso: ink leaking through, residues of paper and glue |
| Inscriptions | 'd' (at lower left, in black chalk), 'L. Seneca' (at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), 'Jaq de Ghyn f. / 3.50 [..]' (verso, at lower centre, in pen and brown ink, in old handwriting) |
| Collector | Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans |
| Mark | Museum Boymans (L.1857) |
| Provenance | Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), Amsterdam, his (†) sale, Amsterdam (Van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800, album UU, no. 2 (‘‘t Borstbeeld van Seneca en nog een ander; door denzelven’ [de Gheyn]), together with no. 3 (‘Twee mans Pourtraiten; door denzelven’), Fl. 2,50 to Schlij [copy RKD]; Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht (L.1857); bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; on loan to the museum since 1849 |
| Exhibitions | Leiden 1976, no. S.36; Rotterdam 1980, p. 12, ill.; Rotterdam/Washington 1985, no. 50 |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | cat. 1852, no. 308 (as Jacob de Gheyn II); cat. 1869 no. 178; cat. 1901, no. 230 (f. 10,- as J. de Gheyn de Jonge) ; Van Regteren Altena 1936, p. 60 (as Jacques de Gheyn II); Bruyn 1951, p. 158; Judson 1973, p. 38; Prinz 1973, p. 417 (n. 15), p. 428; Vickers 1977, p. 644; Van Gelder 1978, p. 233 (as Jacques de Gheyn III); Van Regteren Altena 1983, vol. 1, p. 127, vol. 2, no. 1027 (as Jacques de Gheyn II); and p. 17 (under P 14); Haverkamp-Begemann 1999, p. 158 (n. 2) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |