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recto: Joachim Embracing Anna

Drawing
1661-1669 (made)
Artist/Maker

On the recto, the elderly, bearded figure of Joachim on the right embraces the veiled figure of Anna, whose face is hidden behind his; both are dressed in heavy robes. They stand in a faintly described village landscape, with a horse-drawn cart on the left and farm buildings and a herdsman with two cows and a sheep (?) on the right. The sheet has been cropped prior to reuse, as on its verso is a fragment of a freely handled sketch of a figure apparently wielding a sword, possibly a figure of St Michael or St George.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • recto: Joachim Embracing Anna (published title)
  • verso: Sketch of a figure wielding a sword (published title)
Materials and techniques
Recto: pen and black ink, with grey wash; verso: pen and brown ink.
Brief description
Drawing, recto: 'Joachim Embracing Anna'; verso: 'Sketch of a figure wielding a sword', copy after Lucas van Leyden, Dutch School, 17th century
Physical description
On the recto, the elderly, bearded figure of Joachim on the right embraces the veiled figure of Anna, whose face is hidden behind his; both are dressed in heavy robes. They stand in a faintly described village landscape, with a horse-drawn cart on the left and farm buildings and a herdsman with two cows and a sheep (?) on the right. The sheet has been cropped prior to reuse, as on its verso is a fragment of a freely handled sketch of a figure apparently wielding a sword, possibly a figure of St Michael or St George.
Dimensions
  • Height: 167mm
  • Width: 149mm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on recto at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 387. Inscribed on old ruled and gold mount, in pencil: underneath floated drawing, at centre, £5–5–0; below window opening, at lower right, by Dyce, L.V. Leyden; and above this, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 198.
Object history
Unidentified collector (L. 2508 [at lower left edge; trimmed]);1 Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London,
by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 116, illus. p.160.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.387

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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