Shepherd Boy Leaning on a Staff

Shepherd Boy Leaning on a Staff

RP-T-1981-115

• draftsman (artist): Karel du Jardin, Netherlands
• draftsman (artist): attributed to Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Netherlands [rejected attribution]

before 1655

black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper

height 215 mm x width 175 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds, the Belport Familienstiftung and a contribution from the J.A.Z. Count van Regteren Limpurg Bequest

purchase 1981

Public domain

…; collection Pieter Kikkert (1775-1855), Leiden and Vlaardingen, in an album containing 90 drawings;{Note RMA.} by descent to Mrs E. Peereboom, Haarlem; from whom, as part of the album (RP-T-1981-92A) and another album with 146 drawings and 3 prints (RP-T-1981-182A), fl. 88,000 for all, to the museum (L. 2228), with the support of the F.G. Waller Fonds, the Belport Familiestichting and the J.A.Z. Graaf van Regteren Limpurg Bequest, 1981

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.

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