The Decapitation of a Saint
Drawing
first half 17th century (drawn)
first half 17th century (drawn)
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Decapitation near a temple, a man's head has been cut off by a sword. Numerous figures are around, a Roman general on horseback is in the background
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Title | The Decapitation of a Saint (published title) |
Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk |
Brief description | Drawing 'The Decapitation of a Saint', by Cornelis Schut the elder, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, first half 17th century |
Physical description | Decapitation near a temple, a man's head has been cut off by a sword. Numerous figures are around, a Roman general on horseback is in the background |
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Production type | Unique |
Marks and inscriptions | Signed(?) at lower right, in brown ink, Corn. Schut; and inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 540; on the verso, at lower left, in the hand of Ploos van Amstel, in brown ink, C Schut / geb Antwerpen / Ao 1600; above and below this, also by Ploos, in red ink, H: 11dm / B. 8dm, and C No 1; at lower left corner, possibly also by Ploos, in brown ink, N 51 (crossed through in red ink); and above this, in another hand, in black chalk, f 20. |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
Object history | Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jb Czn (1726–98), Amsterdam (L. 3002–4), his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley ... Roos, 3ff. March 1800, Album DDD, lot 4: ‘Een dito [Martelisatie van een heilige Vrouw] van een Man; het dito [de pen en O. I. Inkt], door C. Schut’ (to ‘van Steeg’ with lot 3 for 10.10 fl.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869) London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
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Accession number | DYCE.540 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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