Adam's Berg (Mulkirigala), Reclining Buddha, Jan Brandes, 1785

Identification

Title(s)

Adam's Berg (Mulkirigala), Reclining Buddha

Object type

drawing

Object number

NG-1985-7-3-125

Inscriptions / marks

inscription: ‘Dit beeld van groove aarde gemaakt legt in de graftombe in den heidensche Singalesen tempel op Ceylon niet verre van Colombo’
signature and date: ‘J. Brandes delin 1785’

Description

Interieur van een grot met een beeld van de liggende Boeddha van vijf manslengten lang en één manslengte hoog en enkele Singalezen in lendedoeken. Met opschrift.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Jan Brandes (signed by artist)

Place

Colombo

Dating

10-Oct-1785 - 30-Dec-1785

Material and Technique

Material

paper
pencil

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 206 mm × width 325 mm

Subject

What

When

1700 - 1800

Where

Mulkirigala

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 2-May-1985

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Collection of the artist; his daughters, Johanna Maria Brandes (1792-1813) and Charlotta Constantia Brandes (1796-1870), Skälsebo;{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} by descent to Erik Kellberg (1883-1960);{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} ? to Brite-Louise Mangs-Kellberg;{File RMA.}…; anonymous sale, London (Sotheby’s), 2 May 1985 sqq., no. 216, £ 50,000, with xx other drawings, to the dealer W. Graham Arader III, New York, for the Rijksmuseum, in exchange for eighteen drawings that were part of this lot, 1985

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.

Relations

Documentation

Cinnamon and elephants, Lodewijk J. Wagenaar, p. 181, ill. 7.10
Kaneel & olifanten, Lodewijk J. 1945- Wagenaar, p. 181, afb. 7.10
The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa, Max de Bruijn, p. 337-339, afb. 102

Persistent URL

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