Two naked children playing with a puppy
Drawing
ca. 1710
ca. 1710
| Artist/Maker |
On the right a naked child, seated on a rock, holds up a puppy, while on the left another naked child, reclining and seen from the back, reaches up to take the puppy. Below his right elbow is the dog’s water bowl.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Two naked children playing with a puppy (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Brush and greyish-brown wash, over graphite, with some of the contours strengthened in black chalk |
| Brief description | Drawing, Two naked children playing with a puppy, by Nicolaas Verkolje, ca.1710, Dutch school |
| Physical description | On the right a naked child, seated on a rock, holds up a puppy, while on the left another naked child, reclining and seen from the back, reaches up to take the puppy. Below his right elbow is the dog’s water bowl. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed (or inscribed?) at lower left, in black chalk, N:Verkolje. |
| Object history | Possibly Jan Willem Barchman Wuytiers (1726–91), Utrecht, possibly his sale, Utrecht, Wild et Altheer, 17 September 1792, Album F, lot 58: ‘Twee Kindertjes met een jonge Hond spelende, met rood en O.I. Inkt uitvoerig gewasschen, door n. verkolje’ (to ‘Verhoezen’ for 1 fl.); possibly Cornelis Stroo (1746–1810), Alkmaar, possibly his sale, Alkmaar, Coster, 29 July 1811, Album M, lot 77, ‘Twee Kindertjes met een Hond spelende, met Roet, door Verkolje’; the bookseller and printer Antoine Bachelin-Deflorenne (b. 1835), Paris; from whom purchased (with cat. nos. 400 and 504–7) by the museum (dry stamp version of L. 1958), 24 October 1870 for £1. 10s. 0d. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat.399, illus. p.325. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 7816 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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