Negen mannen uit de Oudheid

Negen mannen uit de Oudheid

RP-T-1959-16

?/38?

• draughtsman: Barthélémy d' Eyck
• draughtsman: Meester van de Annunciatie van Aix, Provence [rejected attribution]
• after drawing by Leonardo da Besozzo
• draughtsman: Masolino di Cristoforo da Panicale, Rome
• draughtsman: anonymous, Naples

c. 1440

pen in bruin, penseel in kleuren, op perkament

height 312 mm x width 202 mm

Blad uit de Wereldkroniek, of Codex Cockerell, met portretten van negen beroemde mannen uit de Oudheid, naar Leonardo da Besozzo. De portretserie staat bekend als de 'Uomini famosi'; Cockerell was de voormalige bezitter. De 'Uomini famosi' is een geïllumineerd handschrift bestaand uit 38 bladen met meer dan 200 figuren uit de Bijbel, de mythologie, en de klassieke en middeleeuwse geschiedenis. Verwantschap met miniaturen van Jean Fouquet (vRA). Cat. tent. Meermanno, 2002.

Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum

purchase 1958

Public domain

…; purchased by William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, London, 1894;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Mrs Maud Barchard, Lt. -Col. Harold Boyd-Rochfort, Miss M. Gore, Rt. Hon. Viscount Ednam, London (Sotheby's), 2 July 1958, p. 6.} from whom purchased by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London; {According to the catalogue for the sale, Mrs. Maud Barchard et al., London (Sotheby's), 2 July 1958, p. 6.} his sale, Londen (Sotheby’s) 18 July 1919, no. 50, to Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962), London;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Mrs. Maud Barchard et al., London (Sotheby's), 2 July 1958, p. 15.} his collection, 1952;{Toesca 1952, p. 16.}…; sale, Mrs. Maud Barchard et al., London (Sotheby's), 2 July 1958, no. 20;…; collection Dr. Alfred Scharf, London;…; £ 2,200, as a gift from the Jubileum fonds 1958, to the museum, 1959

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.

• Koenig, Eberhard, Das liebentbrannte Herz. Der Wiener Codex und der Maler Barthelemy d'Eyck. Graz 1996.
• Christian Heck, Le Retable de l'Annonciation d'Aix. Récit, prophétie et accomplissement dans l'art de la fin du Moyen Âge, Dijon 2023, p. 36, fig. 6.

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