Specifications
| Title | The Bird Market (the Element of Air) |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash, white, black and ochre oil paint, framing lines with the pen and brown ink (original) and black ink (later) |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 198 mm Width 288 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
After: Joachim Beuckelaer |
| Accession number | N 166 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1600-1625 |
| Signature | none |
| Watermark | Heraldic eagle (difficult to distinguish through the washed drawing), in the centre on P4-5 (vV, 9P, folio), the same watermark, in the same position, as the one in another drawing from the same group of four, inv.no. N 169 [for image click thumbnail above the 'zoom in' option] |
| Inscriptions | 'G[..] Be[..]aer' (at lower centre, in red chalk), 'D.1300 / 11' (verso, at lower right, in pencil) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem (Joachim Beuckelaer); 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 | Gent 1986, no. 57; Rotterdam 2009 (Vogels) |
| Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
| Literature | Boon 1992, p. 18, under no. 5 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Brown wash
> Washing
> Wash
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Place of manufacture | Antwerp > Belgium > Western Europe > Europe |
| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |