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A Man Playing a Bagpipe Walking Beside a Large Tree Trunk in a Landscape

Drawing
late 17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Study of an old tree, a male figure seated near it, blowing the bagpipes, the large horn of which is supported by his shoulder


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleA Man Playing a Bagpipe Walking Beside a Large Tree Trunk in a Landscape (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash
Brief description
Drawing 'A Man Playing a Bagpipe Walking Beside a Large Tree Trunk in a Landscape', Anonymous Flemish, pen and brown ink, late 17th century
Physical description
Study of an old tree, a male figure seated near it, blowing the bagpipes, the large horn of which is supported by his shoulder
Dimensions
  • Height: 255mm
  • Width: 202mm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • orizon (Inscribed in brown ink, at lower left)
  • 209 (Inscribed in brown ink, at lower right (with the museum's Dyce inv. no.))
  • j. FR. VAN BLOEMEN / cognomento Orizonte (Attached to the verso, a piece of paper cut from Mariette’s mount inscribed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), Paris (L. 1852); Comte Moritz von Fries (1777–1826), Vienna (L. 2903); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume II. 17th-18th century, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1990, p. 158. The text is as follows: ORIZONTE Jan Frans van Bloemen (1162-1749) 1059 Landscape with a large tree stump in the foreground and a boy playing on a bagpipe beside it Inscribed in ink in an old ahnd ‘Orison’ Pen and ink and blue-grey wash 10 x 7 7/8 (254 x 199) Dyce 209 PROVENANCE P. J. Mariette (Lugt 1852); Count Moriz von Fries (Lugt 2903); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 209 (as by Orizonte)
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 629, illus.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.209

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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