Man Holding a Mirror up to his Wife’s Face, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, c. 1634

Identification

Title(s)

Man Holding a Mirror up to his Wife’s Face

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1879-A-3

Description

Ontwerp voor een prent.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

Dating

c. 1634

Material and Technique

Physical features

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

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 51 mm × width 56 mm

Explanatory note

Ontwerp voor een illustratie in Jacob Cats' 'Hovwelyck ...' van 1634: een man houdt zijn vrouw een spiegel voor.

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 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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