Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel in old age
Drawing
17th century
17th century
| Artist/Maker |
Drawing, Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel in old age by Phillips Koninck, Pen and brown ink, 17th century
Object details
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| Title | Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel in old age (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown and brownish-grey wash, corrected with opaque white (now partly oxidized), over black chalk; framing line in brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel in old age by Phillips Koninck, Pen and brown ink, 17th century |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink, J v d Vondel; on verso, in brown ink: signed at upper centre, p-ko; and inscribed by another, eighteenth-century hand, at lower left, No= 1267. Inscribed on old mount, in pencil: below window opening, at lower right, from the Emo Tack Collection; at lower centre, in another hand, ? a portrait of, added before earlier inscription by Frits Lugt, Heeroom (van Vondel); below this, at bottom centre, note by F. Lugt, again added before earlier inscription by Lugt, J. v. Vondel by Ph Koninck; and at lower right, Ph Kon… (mount trimmed). |
| Object history | provenance: possibly Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jb Czn (1726–98), Amsterdam, possibly his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley ... Roos, 3ff. March 1800, Album KKK, lot 50: ‘Het afbeeldzel van Joost van den Vondel; in zyn hoogen ouderdom; met de pen, en roet geteekend, door Ph. Koning, en een ander, met de pen geteekend’ (with lot 51 to ‘van der Schley’ for 6.5 fl.); possibly Baron J.G. Verstolk van Soelen (1776–1845), Rotterdam and The Hague, his sale, Amsterdam, de Vries ... Roos, 22 March 1847, Album K, lot 382: ‘Le poête Juste Vondel à l’âge de quatre vingt deux ans, assis sur une chaise. Dessin au bistre, par Philippe Koning’ (to ‘Engelberts’ for 90 fl.); possibly Baroness Anna Henrietta Elisabeth van Pallandt (née Verstolk van Soelen; 1785–1866), Claarenbeek, her sale, Amsterdam, Roos ... Lamme, 4ff. November 1867, lot 17: ‘Le Poëte J. van Vondel à l’âge de quatre vingt deux ans assis sur une chaise. Bistre. Coll. Verstolk de Soelen’ (to ‘de Vos’ for 20 fl.); Emo Tack (according to an inscription on the mount); Edwin Parsons (dealer), London; from whom purchased by the museum (dry stamp version of L. 1958), 22 May 1890 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. 1, Cat. 103, illustrated. pg. 149 |
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| Accession number | D.205-1890 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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