drawing
- Museum number
- 1886,0706.6
- Description
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Fools; interior with a group of fools gaping up a chimney, to right another group battering their heads against a wall, with two figures at windows behind
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, touched with brown wash
Verso: Portrait of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; head and shoulders, turned and looking to right, wearing a bejewelled, soft hat
Pen and brown ink
Watermark: Gothic P
- Production date
- 1548-1560 (active)
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres
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Width: 288 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Popham describes the portrait on reverse as Jan zonder Vrees. This drawing was formerly attributed as Anonymous and described as such by Popham.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- The lots in the sale came from various sources so it is not certain that this drawing belonged to Cremer.Possibly Thomas Holbein: Sotheby's sale, 8-9.v.1865/309 'Portrait of Charles Duke of Burgundy with fools trying to outgrape the oven on reverse by Vertue'
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1886,0706.6
