Specifications
| Title | Two Men in Oriental Dress |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash, framing lines in graphite or pencil |
| Object type |
Drawing (verso)
> Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 142 mm Width 99 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen
|
| Accession number | N 128 verso (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1603 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | unidentified figure in a circle (fragment at lower left corner)(vH, 4P) [for images click thumbnails above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | '1810' (at upper left, in pencil), 'R' (verso, at upper right, in pencil, difficult to read) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | W. Bateson (L.2604a), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | F. Brangwyn [according to sale catalogue]; William Bateson (1861 1926), Birmingham, by whom sold, London (Sotheby’s) 23 april 1929, no. 203 (attributed to Pieter Bruegel), to art dealer Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam [copy RKD], Album V for Franz W. Koenigs (1881 1941), Haarlem; 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 | Londen 1927, no. 530 (als Pieter Brueghel I); Utrecht 1984, p. 12 and cat.no. 41; Praag 1997, no. II. 292; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 95 (Paris only) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Duyvené de Wit-Klinkhamer 1960, p. 529; Gerszi 1971, p. 101, onder nr. 310; Gerszi 1975, p. 74; Gerszi 1977, p. 123; Gerszi 1982a, p. 17 en nrs. 53, 53v; Ter Molen 1984, nr. 274 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
