FJK 052
Gheyn II Jacques De (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague)
Deviltry: A Witch, Human Bodies and a Horse in an Undeground Tunnel
ca. 1603-1604
3 1/2 × 5 5/64 in. (89 × 129 mm)
Medium
Pen and brown ink on paper
Inscription linked with a French 18th-century collection on support: Portefeuille no 54, Dessein no 66
Origin
Anonymous French Collection (18th century)
Johann Kaspar Lavater Collection
I.O. Wessner Collection (Lugt 2562a)
Foundation Ian Woodner, New York
Sale, Christie’s, London, Old Master Drawings from The Woodner Collection, July 2, 1991, no. 206
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5105
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 399, ill.
Exhibitions
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 84, no. 35, color ill. p. 85.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 118, no. 43, color ill. p. 119.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 108, no. 42, color ill. p. 109.
Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 104, no. 44, color ill. p. 105.
Notes
De Gheyn’s fascination with the supernatural is suggested by the survival of over twenty drawings of scenes of sorcery and witchcraft, I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn, Three Generations, The Hague, 1983, nos. 510-31. Of these, two are set in barrel vaulted structures similar to that in the present drawing: the Witches Scene of 1603 at Rennes and the Witches under an arched Vault of 1604 in the Ashmolean, op. cit., nos. 521 and 523. The present sheet would appear to be the near contemporary of the former, which is of similar dimensions.
Christie’s, Old Master Drawings from The Woodner Collection, London July 1991 (extract from)
Request for information/loan
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