Specifications
| Title | Alexander Receiving the Keys of Babylon |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, framing lines with the pen in brown ink, laid down |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 214 mm Width 210 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
Circle of: Pieter de Jode (I) Previously attributed: Johannes Stradanus |
| Accession number | MB 1783 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of F.J.O. Boijmans, 1847 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1847 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1625 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | none (vV, 8?P; backing paper vH, ?P) |
| Inscriptions | none |
| 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 | Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 105 |
| 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) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | cat. 1852, no. 960 (Stradanus); cat. 1869, no. 824 (Stradanus) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Double
> Doubled
> Adding and binding materials
> General technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Double
> Doubled
> Adding and binding materials
> General technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
