Drie manskoppen, Jean Antoine Watteau (rejected attribution), Jacob de Wit (possibly), after Peter Paul Rubens, 1705 - 1721

Identification

Title(s)

Drie manskoppen

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1939-20

Inscriptions / marks

collector's mark, verso, centre: Lugt 2228
collector's mark, on the verso of the old mount: (Unidentified collector)Lugt 4179
annotation, on the recto of the old mount, pen and brown ink: ‘De la collection de Mr. Jacob de Vos / M[emb]re de l'Inst[itu]t & de l'Acad[émie] des Arts. Amst[erdam] / m[or]t 1833 - Du depuis a Mr. H. A. K. [Hendrik Abraham Klinkhamer] / Conserv[ateur] au Musée d'Amsterdam. / Jacob de Wit administrateur de P. / P. Rubens, copia beaucoup d'apres / ce dernier. Né a Amster[erda]m en 1695 - / m[or]t en 1754.’

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Jean Antoine Watteau (rejected attribution)
draughtsman: Jacob de Wit (possibly)
draughtsman: Peter Paul Rubens (copy after)
draughtsman: Anthony van Dyck (copy after)

Dating

1705 - 1721

Material and Technique

Material

paper
chalk

Measurements

height 150 mm × width 213 mm

Subject

What

old man

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1939

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; …; from the dealer Brouwer, Arnhem, fl. 50, as Jacob de Wit, to the museum, 1939

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Antoine Watteau : catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, K.T., Mathey, J. Parker, cat.nr. 262
Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 : catalogue raisonné des dessins, Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, cat.nr. R4
Aanwinsten 1940-1946 : tentoonstelling van schilderijen, beeldhouwkunst, meubelen, kunstnijverheid, teekeningen en prenten, verworven in de jaren 1940-1946, p. 36, cat.nr. 101
Jaarverslag 1939, p. 13 (afb. t.o. p. 13).

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