Specifications
| Title | The Battle of the Gods and Giants |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white |
| Object type |
Drawing (recto)
> Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 415 mm Width 268 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Hans Speckaert
Previously attributed: Anoniem |
| Accession number | MB 1988/T 5 recto (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1988 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1988 |
| Creation date | in circa 1575 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | none (vH, 8P) |
| Inscriptions | none |
| Mark | Claudius de Jonge (not in Marques de collections Online) |
| Provenance | Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897); sale, Amboise (Gourjon), 9 June 1947; art dealer Royan; acquired by Claudius de Jonge, Chazelles; his sale, Parijs (Drouot) 10 March 1986, no. 3 (Hans Speckaert); art dealer Adolphe Stein, Paris; acquired by the museum in 1988 |
| Exhibitions | London 1986b, no. 71; Rotterdam/New York/Fort Worth/Cleveland 1990, no. 19, col.ill.; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 2); Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 48 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Van Pisanello tot Cézanne (1992) De Collectie Twee - wissel II, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) 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 | Luijten/Meij 1990, no. 19, col.ill. (anon. Netherlandish mannerist, c. 1575); Siroká 1995, vol. 2, pp. 538-540, 542, 551, 577-579, no. F50 (falsely attributed to Hans Speckaert) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
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