Specifications
| Title | Fantasy Landscape with a Rock Fortress, Water Mill and Iron Mine |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and brush and brown ink, gray and brown wash, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 195 mm Width 281 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Attributed to:
Johannes Liefrinck
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| Accession number | N 118 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1580-1599 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | pot, possibly with initials (indistinct), crowned and surmounted by a quadrifoil (53x19mm, lower centre, between P3-4 from below), Northern French make, similar to several varieties in Briquet, a.o. Briquet 12697 (doc. Chartres 1589) (vV, 9P, fine). [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Condition | foxing, the lead white of the heightenings oxidised in places |
| Inscriptions | 'liefrinck' (at upper right, in pen and brown ink), '1529' (at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), '12' (verso, at upper centre, in pencil), '3314 S' (verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Through art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam to Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1928 [information museum]; 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 2004b |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | none |
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| Technique |
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Brown wash
> Washing
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Grey wash
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| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |