Specifications
| Title | An Elegant Couple |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk (traces), pen and brown ink, on parchment, framing lines with the pen in black ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 172 mm Width 132 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
After: Lucas van Leyden |
| Accession number | N 27 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | none (parchment) |
| Inscriptions | 'L' (at lower right, in pen and black ink), '2189 hzg' (verso, at lower left, in pencil), 'P[..]' (verso, at upper right, in red chalk), 'L 5' (verso, at lower centre, in pencil) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Art dealer Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam to Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem (L.1023a), fl. 400, 1922 (‘Lucas van Leyden, twee figuren) [information museum]; 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 | none |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | none |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
fig. 1 Lucas van Leyden. The dance of Mary Magdalene, 1519. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-OB-1706[/caption]
