Specifications
| Title | Head of a Cherub |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 127 mm Width 117 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jacob Matham
|
| Accession number | JMat 1 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1847 |
| Creation date | in 1627 |
| Signature | 'Matham fe 1627' signed and dated (centre, in pen and brown ink) |
| Watermark | none |
| Inscriptions | '161' or '16U' (verso, centre, in red chalk) |
| Collector | Collector / F.J.O. Boijmans |
| Mark | Museum Boymans (L.1857) |
| Provenance | F.J.O. Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht; bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847; on permanent loan to the museum since 1849 |
| Exhibitions | none |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | cat. 1852, no. 566 (as Jacob Matham); cat. 1869, no. 445; cat. 1901, no. 531 (f. 10,-); Amsterdam/Vienna/New York/Cambridge 1991, p. 30 (note 4) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
fig. 1 Jacob Matham. Head of a cherub, 1612. The Hague, Royal Library, album amicorum E. Brinck 133 M 86, fol. 175 verso[/caption]