Specifications
| Title | Design for a Medaillion with a Merry Company |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Metalpoint , heightened in places with green gouache (the vines and the fruit), framing lines with the pen in brown ink, on an oval piece of white prepared paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 36 mm Width 47 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Hendrick Goltzius
|
| Accession number | MB 1954/T 46 (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1954 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1954 |
| Creation date | in 1581 |
| Signature | signed 'Goltzius f' (at upper right, in pen and brown ink) and dated 'Ao 1581' gedateerd (in the autograph text, at centre left, in pen and brown ink) |
| Inscriptions | 'Gheraert Spronck spreckt voor zyn bediet, Sonder wyn en schoene Vrauwen isde werelt niet. Ao 1581' (autograph inscription, in pen and brown ink, on two oval auxiliary lines in metalpoint) |
| Mark | T. Dimsdale (L.2426) |
| Provenance | Morel de Vindé; Paignon Dijonval [cat. Bénard, 1810, no. 1839]; Thomas Dimsdale (1758 1823), London; art dealer Bernhard Houthakker Amsterdam; acquired by the museum, fl. 480, 1954 |
| Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1952, p. 4, no. 28a; Rotterdam/Haarlem 1958, no. 73 |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Hollstein VIII, 1953, p. 69; Reznicek 1955, fig. 14; Frederiks 1958, pp. 6-7 (under no. 12), pl. 6 (fig. 12); Reznicek 1961, p. 61 and no. 179; Kahr 1973, p. 256 (n. 61); Strauss 1977, vol. 1, p. 246; TIB dl. 3 (commentary), p. 293; New Hollstein 2012 (onder no. 252) |
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| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |