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Materials:
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
Measurements:
13.78 in. (35.00 cm.) (height) by 10.04 in. (25.50 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
with inscriptions 'Jacomo de Geÿn,/ nat' Leven getekent' and 'Jacomo de Gijn' (both verso); watermark Strasburg bend and lily
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, 1929, no. 529 (catalogue by D. Hannema, C. Dodgson and A.M. Hind).Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dessins hollandais de Jérôme Bosch à Rembrandt, 1937-38, no. 32, pl. XXII (catalogue by F. Schmidt-Degener).Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d’une collection privée d’Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 55, pl. 39 (catalogue by J. Giltaij). Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Jacques de Gheyn II als tekenaar 1565-1629, 1985-86, no. 88 (catalogue by A.T. van Deursen et al.). Cambridge, Mass., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, 1988, no. 31 (catalogue by F.J. Duparc).
Literature:
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, London, 1929, p. 41, pl. 7.M.D. Henkel, 'Hollandsche teekeningen in Brussel', Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten, XV, 1938, pp. 41, pl. 7.J.R. Judson, The Drawings of Jacob de Gheyn II, New York, 1973, p. 26, pl. 58 (the caption confused with that of pl. 59).C. Brown, 'Review: Kabinet van Tekeningen', Burlington Magazine, CXIX, no. 888, March 1977, p. 217.I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, The Hague, 1983, II, no. 989, III, pl. 230.A. Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850, Cologne, 2011, II, pp. 654-5, under no. 1250, note 1.
Provenance:
Probably Isaac van der Vinne (1620-1702), Haarlem (according to I.Q. van Regteren Altena's inventory card).with Nicolaes Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 31 October 1925 for 400 guilders (Inventory book: '127. t. J. de Gheyn beuk').