Elderly Man and Woman Willingly Following Death Playing Bagpipes

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, c. 1628

Ontwerp voor een prent.

  • Artwork typedrawing, design
  • Object numberRP-T-1879-A-4
  • Dimensionsheight 50 mm x width 65 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen and brown ink, with grey wash and opaque watercolour; outlines indented for transfer; framing line in brown ink (partly trimmed)

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Elderly Man and Woman Willingly Following Death Playing Bagpipes

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1879-A-4

  • Description

    Ontwerp voor een prent.

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Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

  • Dating

    c. 1628

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

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

  • Dimensions

    height 50 mm x width 65 mm


Explanatory note

  • Ontwerp voor een illustratie in Jacob Cats' 'Hovwelyck ...' van 1628: een oude man en vrouw volgen gewillig de doedelzakspelende Dood.


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  • 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.}


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