Design for a Cartouche Flanked by Fame and Personifications of Human and Godly Wisdom

Design for a Cartouche Flanked by Fame and Personifications of Human and Godly Wisdom

RP-T-1989-98

Ontwerp voor een cartouche bestemd voor een kaart van het eiland Malta. Links Fama met haar bazuin, rechts een personificatie van de Goddelijke en de Menselijke Wijsheid. Ontwerp voor een prent.

draftsman (artist): Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Amsterdam (possibly)

c. 1660 - c. 1665

pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over graphite; later additions in graphite and red chalk; outlines indented for transfer; framing line in brown ink (left and upper border)

height 177 mm x width 164 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting and the Ster Holding BV

purchase 1989

Public domain

…; collection Carel Vosmaer (1826-88), Montreux;{Amsterdam 1989, p. 97, no. 17.} his son, Prof. Dr Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer (1854-1916), Leiden; his son, C.J.J.G. Vosmaer (1907-86), Leiden; his heirs; from whom, fl. 650,000, with 212 other drawings, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum Stichting and The Ster, 1989

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