Acquisitions Old Master Drawings

• Published in: The Rijksmuseum bulletin Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 386 - 405
• Main Authors: RIJDT, ROBERT-JAN TE, TOD, ALICE ANNE, TURNER, JANE SHOAF
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Stichting het Rijksmuseum 01.01.2018; Rijksmuseum; The Rijksmuseum Publications Department
• Subjects: Collection development; Renaissance period
• ISSN: 1877-8127; 2772-6126
• DOI: 10.52476/trb.9765

1) Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk c. 1500-c. 1559 Brussels)Lamentation of Christ, c. 1532-35Pen and black and brown ink, over traces of black chalk; squared for transfer in black chalk, 180 x 257 mmInscribed, on the verso, in brown ink: J.V. Cleef f. de Sotte 2) Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Bologna)Extensive Landscape with Figures and Animals on a Bridge, a Watermill to the Right, and a Fortified Town beyond (recto), c. 1588-90Hillside Landscape Sketch with Figures and Buildings (verso), c. 1588-90Pen and brown ink, 286 x 425 mm Inscribed, on the old backing, in brown ink: Famosissmo Disegno di Annibale Carracci; 3) Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht 1592-1656 Utrecht)Study for a Double Portrait of a Noble Couple as Meleager and Atalanta, c.1630-50Pen and brush and grey wash, heightened with opaque white, over black chalk, on (faded) grey-blue cartridge paper, 192 x 253 mm; 4) Paulus Potter (Enkhuizen 1625-1654 Amsterdam)Landscape with a Herd of Eight Cows and a Peasant, 1641Pen and brown ink, with two shades of grey wash, the outlines indented, 178 x 263 mm Signed and dated, lower right, in brown ink: Paulus · Potter · f· 1641Inscribed, on verso, at upper edge, in a seventeenth-century hand, in brown ink: Paulus Potte