Specifications
| Title | The Samian Sibyl |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), black ink (traces), pen and brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 200 mm Width 190 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
|
| Accession number | N 103 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1500-1510 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Heart, crowned, with gothic initials JB below (here in mirror image, viewed on the recto; 41x20 mm, VV, 8P, very fine, near the centre, between P4-5 from the left), similar to Briquet 4324 (French, possibly Troyes, doc. in France and the Netherlands, Pfalz, 1482-1499; pp. 259-260, initials JB possibly those of the papermaker). [AE] [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Condition | iron-gall ink corrosion permeating to the reverse |
| Inscriptions | none |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | A. Firmin-Didot (L.119), L. Galichon (L.1060), G.B. Lasquin (L.1139a), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Comte Antoine François Andréossy (1761-1828), Paris/Montabau; his (†) sale, Paris (Navoit), 13-16 April 1864, no. 251 (Hubert van Eyck, ff 110 to Firmin-Didot)[copy RKD]; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), Paris; his (†) sale, Paris (Delestre), 16 April-12 May 1877, no. 53 (Hans Memling, FF 100 to ‘DD’)[copy RKD]; Louis Galichon (1829-1893), Paris; his (†) sale, Paris (Delestre), 8 March 1895, no. 110 (Hans Memling, FF 150)[copy RKD]; Leprieur, Paris; his sale, Paris, 21 November 1919, no. 12 [acc. to Lasquin sale cat.]; G.B. Lasquin (1882-1932), Paris; his sale, Paris (Lair-Dubreuil), 7-8 June 1928, no. 146 (attr. Hans Memling, FF 51.100)[copy RKD]; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1928 (Bruges, late 15th c.); on loan to the museum, 1935-1940; purchased with the Koenigs collection by D.G. van Beuningen (1871-1955), Rotterdam and presented to the Stichting Museum Boymans, 1940; on loan to the museum since 1940 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1934, no. 14 (Bruges, c. 1490); Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 10 |
| 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) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Boon 1950, p. 91 (Master of the History of Joseph?) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Place of manufacture | Bruges > Belgium > Western Europe > Europe |
| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |