Specifications
| Title | The Man with the Potato Nose |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, framing lines with the pen in black ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 238 mm Width 167 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Hendrick Goltzius
|
| Accession number | MB 1743 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1847 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1605 |
| Signature | monogrammed 'HG [in ligature]' (at upper right, in pen and brown ink) |
| Watermark | none (vH, 6-7P) |
| Condition | needle holes at the upper centre, iron-gall ink corrosion, damaged upper corners, pen tests on the reverse of the backing in pen and brown ink |
| Inscriptions | '[ik h]eb een noys ende wilt wel weeten / ghy hebt v ooren vergeeten' (at lower left, in pen and brown ink, autograph), 'Goltius' (verso, at lower centre, in pencil) |
| 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; in the museum since its foundation, 1849 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam/Haarlem 1958, no. 121; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 81 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 3) (2015) |
| External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | cat. 1852, no. 321; cat. 1869, no. 191; cat. 1901, no. 247; Hirschmann, 1919, p. 143; Reznicek 1961, no. 338; TIB vol. 3 (commentary), 1982, p. 270, under no. 240b; Van Regteren Altena 1983, vol. 1, pp. 148-149; Reznicek 1988, p. 82; New Hollstein 2012, under no. 727 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
fig. 1 School of Hendrick Goltzius, Meynaert Noeswys, c. 1580-1620. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, inv.no. BdH 8564 (PK)[/caption]