Paleis van de koning van Kandy

Paleis van de koning van Kandy

NG-1985-7-3-126

Voorkant van het paleis van de koning van Kandy. Met her en der wachtlopende soldaten met muiltjes, brede tulbanden, wijde broek of sari en gewapend met kromzwaard en/of pieken. Waarschijnlijk naar een voorbeeld getekend.

inscription: ‘Palais du roy de Candia’

• draughtsman: school of Johannes Rach
• draughtsman: Jan Brandes, Kandy (voormalige natie) [rejected attribution]

c. 1770

pen in zwart over schets in potlood

height 332 mm x width 505 mm

purchase 1985-05-02

Public domain

? Collection of one of the artists, Jan Brandes (1743-1808); ? 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

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