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Identification
Title(s)
Lichaams-, gezichts- en figuurstudies.
Object type
Object number
NG-1985-7-5
Description
Pen en penseeltekeningen van neuzen, monden, handen, voeten, gezichten en figuren. Gebonden in kaft met bloemenpatroon, oblong. Genummerd van 1 tot 18. Titelblad: 'Ritningar genom Jan Brandes', 'hvilkenhar ritat allt detta pä endag i December 1787'. Het boekje heeft toebehoord (volgens een opschrift aan de binnenkant van de kaft) aan: 'Tilhorig JE Martin Upsala den 1 Maj 1845'. Onderdeel uit het kleine schetsboek van Jan Brandes 'Ritningar genom Jan Brandes' (1808), p. 1-18.
Creation
Material and Technique
Subject
Who
Acquisition and rights
Acquisition
purchase 2-May-1985
Copyright
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.
Documentation
- Jan Brandes, de Lutherse predikant-tekenaar, Hans Visser