Three Studies of a Recumbant Lion

• Study Sheet with Three Lions
• Three Studies of a Recumbant Lion

RP-T-1989-85(R)

Jacques de Gheyn probably made the underlying drawing in red chalk from life. This material was perfect for making rapid sketches. He later worked up the depiction in pen and brown ink. The typically short curved crosshatching betrays the hand of an experienced engraver. The artist worked the copper plate with a burin in the same way.

• draughtsman: Jacques de Gheyn (III)
• draughtsman: Jacques de Gheyn (II)

c. 1615 - c. 1634

pen en bruine inkt, over rood krijt, op lichtbruin kardoespapier

height 202 mm x width 323 mm

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

purchase 1989

Public domain

…; sale, Samuel van Huls (1655-1734, The Hague), The Hague (Swart), 14 May 1736 sqq., Album I, no. 378, as Jacques de Gheyn II (`2 avec Ours & des Lions & 2 autres´), with two other drawings, fl. 2:2-;{I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, 3 vols., The Hague 1983, no. II 861; Copy RKD.} …; sale, Isaac Walraven (1686-1765, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (H. de Winter et al.), 14 October 1765 sqq, no. 933 or 934, as Jacques de Gheyn II (`Een leggende leeuw, met de Pen gearceerd en een weinig rood Kryt. / Een ditto, in dezelve manier.´), fl. 11 for both, to Johan van der Marck Ægzn (1707-72), Leiden;{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (De Winter and IJver), 29 November 1773 sqq., no. 1912 or 1913, as Jacques de Gheyn II (`Een leggende leeuw; met rood en zwart getekent, door denzelven. / Een leggende ditto, met de Pen en rood Kryt getekent, door denzelven.´), fl. 1, to Frederik Willem Greebe (? - 1788), Amsterdam;{Copy RKD; I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, 3 vols., The Hague 1983, no. II 861.}…; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 1 March 1819, Album M, no. 49, as Jacques de Gheyn II (`Twee stuks Leeuwen; met ditto, door J. de Ghyn.´), fl. 7, to the dealer Brondgeest (Amsterdam);{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Isaac Danckerts (1790/91-1848, Amsterdam) et al., Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 3 December 1849 sqq., Album D, no. 130, as Jacques de Gheyn II (`Twee stuks Studiën van liggende Leeuwen, meesterlijk met de pen, door JAC. DE GHYN´), fl. 9, to `Roos´;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Gérard Leembruggen Jzn (1801-65, The Hague, Lisse and Hillegom), Amsterdam (Roos et al.), 5 March 1866 sqq., no. 255, as Jacques de Gheyn II (`Etudes de lions. Deux dessins. A la plume.´), fl. 1:50:-, to `Jonkers´;{Copy RKD.} …; ? sale, Leendert Dupper (1799-1870, Rotterdam), Dordrecht (Roos et al.), 28 June 1870, no. 130;{According to I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, 3 vols., The Hague 1983, no. II 861.} …; sale, J.M. Cr [...] (?-?, Rotterdam), et al., Amsterdam (Roos et. al.), 4 March 1884 sqq, no. 59, fl. 3, to `Roos´;{According to ibid., no. II 861.} …; collection Carel Vosmaer (1826-88), Montreux;{J.F. Heijbroek (ed.), _De verzameling van mr. Carel Vosmaer (1826-1888)_, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksprentenkabinet) 1989, p. 47, no. 4.} 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, as Jacques de Gheyn II, fl. 650,000, with 212 other drawings, to the museum (L. 2228), with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting and The Ster Holding BV, 1989

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