Specifications
| Title | Landscape with Ruins |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 198 mm Width 302 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Govert Janszn genaamd Mijnheer
|
| Accession number | MB 1952/T 11 recto (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1952 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1952 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1620 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Pot with one handle, initials ELG or FLG (?) on the belly, crowned and surmounted by a quadrifoil and a crescent (72x34mm, on P4-5 from the top, above the centre; vV, 9P, cropped folio), common type, Northern French make, similar to several varieties in Briquet, a.o. Briquet 12722 (doc. Paris 1567). [AE] [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | 'B' (verso, at lower right, in black chalk) |
| Mark | none |
| Provenance | sale, Berlin (Puppel), 8-9 December 1937, no. 290 (Maarten van Heemskerck, one of three drawings from a sketch-book); art dealer Boerner, Düsseldorf (anonymus, early 17th c.); acquired by the museum, 1952 |
| Exhibitions | none |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Jaarverslag 1952, p. 4 (anon. Netherlandish artist, early 17th-c.); Van Gelder 1968, pp. 527-528, no. 21 (possibly 18th-c.) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
