Two Sketches of the Head of an Elephant

Two Sketches of the Head of an Elephant

RP-T-1940-595

draughtsman: Petrus Camper

c. 1786

rood krijt

height 185 mm x width 246 mm

Het betreft hier de beide olifanten die Hans en Parkie werden genoemd en die in 1795, na de overmeestering van de Republiek, door de Fransen naar Parijs werden gevoerd.

Gift of J.C.J. Bierens de Haan

Public domain

…; ? sale, collection René Della Faille de Waerloos (†) et al., Amsterdam (F.Muller), 19 January 1904, no. 75, as `Six feuilles avec études d´éléphants´, fl. 75;{Copy RMA.} … ; donated, with five others drawings, by Johan Catharinus Justus Bierens de Haan (1867-1951), Amsterdam, , to the museum, 1940

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