Hands Emerging from a Cloud, Plucking Hairs from the Heads of Two Elderly Men, One almost Bald, the Other with a Luxuriant Thatch of Hair

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, c. 1633

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1898-A-4056
  • Dimensionsheight 49 mm x width 65 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen and brown ink, with grey wash and opaque watercolour, over traces of a sketch in graphite or black chalk; framing line in grey-brown ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Hands Emerging from a Cloud, Plucking Hairs from the Heads of Two Elderly Men, One almost Bald, the Other with a Luxuriant Thatch of Hair

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1898-A-4056

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Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

  • Dating

    c. 1633

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    pen and brown ink, with grey wash and opaque watercolour, over traces of a sketch in graphite or black chalk; framing line in grey-brown ink

  • Dimensions

    height 49 mm x width 65 mm


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Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet

  • Acquisition

    bequest 1898

  • Copyright

  • Provenance

    …; collection Daniël Franken Dzn (1838-98), Amsterdam and Le Vésinet; by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. 2228), 1898


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