Study of a Skull, Facing Left

Study of a Skull, Facing Left

RP-T-1902-A-4628

draftsman (artist): Cornelis Visscher (II)

c. 1654 - c. 1658

black chalk; framing lines in brown and black ink

height 93 mm x width 113 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1902

Public domain

…; sale, Samuel van Huls (1655-1734, The Hague), The Hague (J. Swart), 14 May 1736 sqq., Album KK, no. 2055 (‘4 têtes de mort sur une feuille’); …; sale, Jan Hendrik Troost van Groenendoelen (c. 1722-97, Amsterdam) and Jacobus Versteegen (1735-95, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 27 June 1796, Album B, no. 47 (‘Vier stuks verschillende afbeeldingen van doodshoofden; fraai en uitvoerig met zwart kryt geteekent, door C. de Visscher.’), with three other drawings; …; collection Jacob de Vos (1735-1833), Amsterdam;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 710.} his sale, Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 30 October 1833 sqq., Album XX, no. 1 (‘Twee stuks met Doodshoofden. Breed met zwart krijt, door C. Visscher’), with inv. no. RP-T-1902-A-4629, fl. 7 for both, to the dealer J. de Vries, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-82), Amsterdam (L. 1450); his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 595, with inv. no. RP-T-1902-A-4629, fl. 15 for both, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 710, with inv. no. RP-T-1902-A-4629, fl. 15 for both, to the dealer C.F. Roos for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1895; from whom, with inv. no. RP-T-1902-A-4629, fl. 17.25 for both, to the museum (L. 2228), 1902

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