Specifications
Title | The Adoration of the Magi |
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Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and gray-brown ink, gray wash, 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 274 mm Width 266 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Studio: Meester van 1518 |
Accession number | N 140 (PK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1940 |
Creation date | in circa 1520-1530 |
Signature | none |
Watermark | Gothic P (48x18mm, between P3-4 from below, 23 mm distance PP, beneath the kneeling figure; vV, 12P, very fine, heavily cropped plano), a very common type in the period c. 1450-1550, similar to a.o. Piccard Online 106838 (doc. Ghent 1522). [for detail image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
Inscriptions | 'L van Leyden' (at lower right, in pen and brown ink), '223 [crossed] / 500' (verso, at lower right, in black chalk), '349' (verso, at lower centre, possibly a stamp) |
Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
Mark | A. Freiherr von Lanna (L.2773), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
Provenance | Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna, Prague (1836-1909), his (†) sale, Stuttgart (Gutekunst), 6-11 May 1910, no. 349 (Lucas van Leyden), RM 1720, to art dealer G. Hess, Munich; Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne, with the rest of his collection to Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, 1929 (Leiden, ca. 1480); 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 since 1940 |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Grey wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
Place of manufacture | Antwerp > Belgium > Western Europe > Europe |