Elderly Man and Woman Willingly Following Death Playing Bagpipes, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, c. 1628

Identification

Title(s)

Elderly Man and Woman Willingly Following Death Playing Bagpipes

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1879-A-4

Description

Ontwerp voor een prent.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

Dating

c. 1628

Material and Technique

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with grey wash and opaque watercolour; outlines indented for transfer; framing line in brown ink (partly trimmed)

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 50 mm × width 65 mm

Explanatory note

Ontwerp voor een illustratie in Jacob Cats' 'Hovwelyck ...' van 1628: een oude man en vrouw volgen gewillig de doedelzakspelende Dood.

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transfer 16-Dec-1879

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, Benoît Coster (d. before 1875, Amsterdam and Arnhem), Amsterdam (Roos et al), 18 March 1875 sqq., no. 109, with three other drawings (‘Quatre pièces. Sujets tires de l'oeuvre du poète J. Cats. A l'encre de Chine’), fl. 110 for all, to Johan Philip van der Kellen (1831-1906) for the museum (L. 2228), 1879{For security reasons, the drawing was transferred from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1879.}

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Persistent URL

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