LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink and gray wash heightened with white (partly oxidized) over traces of black chalk, within a drawn frame

Measurements:

10.04 in. (25.50 cm.) (height) by 6.81 in. (17.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

monogrammed in black chalk: K v M, and inscribed in brown ink: Een ydel buydel maecket hert t'onvreden / den tyt voorleden, moeten wy beclaghen / doen wy van het speck al te diepe sneden / t hammegen is op wij t hieltgen knaghen.

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tekeningen van oude Meesters. De verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, 1993, cat. no. 6

Literature:

H. Miedema (ed.), Karel van Mander: The lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, vol. II, Doornspijk 1995, p. 135, cat. no. D48, reproduced; M. Leesberg et al., The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Karel van Mander, Rotterdam 1999, p. xcviii, no. 28, reproduced p. civ, fig. 28

Provenance:

Jacobus A. Klaver (his mark on the mount; not in Lugt), his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 10 May 1994, lot 6, purchased by the present owner