LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink

Measurements:

9.65 in. (24.50 cm.) (height) by 13.39 in. (34.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

with inscription 'De Hand van Judas Thadeús door H: Goltziús'

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Haarlem, Teylers Museum, Hendrick Goltzius als tekenaar, 1958, no. 112 (catalogue entry by E.J.K. Reznicek).London, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Orange and the Rose: Holland and Britain in the Age of Observation 1600-1750, 1964, no. 101 (catalogue by A.G.H. Bachrach et al.).Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art 1580-1620, 1993-94, no. 18 (catalogue entry by M. Royalton-Kisch).

Literature:

E.J.K. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Utrecht, 1961, p. 306, no. 166, as 'Goltzius Hand'.M. Wolff, in The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, exhib. cat., Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1986-87, p. 155, under no. 54.M. Schapelhouman, Netherlandish Drawings circa 1600 in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1987, p. 104, note 2 and p. 106, note 2, under no. 64.C.S. Ackley, From Michelangelo to Rembrandt: Master Drawings from the Teylers Museum, exhib. cat., New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 92, under no. 58.L.W. Nichols, 'The "pen-works" of Hendrick Goltzius', Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, LXXXVIII, 1991, p. 11.W.S. Melion, 'Love and Artisanship in Hendrick Goltzius's Venus, Bacchus and Ceres of 1606', Art History, XVI, no. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 72-3, fig. 36 and p. 89, note 55.N. Turner, L. Hendrix and C. Plazzotta, European Drawings: 3: Catalogue of the Collections, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 20, under no. 8.H. Leeflang, in Hendrick Goltzius, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and other locations, 2003-4, p. 244, under no. 85.

Provenance:

Possibly presented by the artist to his friend Jacob Rauwert (circa 1530-1597), and by descent to his sonClaes Rauwert (1564-circa 1612); Amsterdam, 31 August 1612, lot 445 ('1 hant mette pen gedaen'; 9.25 guilders to Boissens).Possibly Cornelis Dircksz. Boissens (circa 1567-circa 1634), Amsterdam. The artist Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816); his sale, Amsterdam, 23 April 1819, Album C, lot 7 ('De Hand van Judas Tadeus, met de pen; door H. Goltzius'.)Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-1882). Prince Wladimir Nikolaevich Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (1874-1941) (without his mark); from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren on 7 July 1929 for 50 guilders (Inventory book: '725. t. copie n. Goltzius Teylers Hand').