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May 19, 2010

Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear

1586

Hendrick Goltzius

(Dutch, 1558–1617)

Netherlands, Haarlem, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk with traces of white opaque watercolor over black chalk, on paper; traces of transfer

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 20.6 x 15.6 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1994.195

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This military officer brandishes a type of spear used for boar hunting, in which the two lugs on the blade were meant to keep the animal from pushing its way up the spear to attack the hunter.

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This sheet is the only known preparatory drawing for an important group of engravings depicting military figures designed by Hendrick Goltzius between 1582 and 1600. Here Goltzius depicted a military officer with a confident stance and direct gaze as he staunchly holds a spear in his right hand and carries his sword on his hip. Details such as the fluttering scarf and the feather-trimmed hat enliven the image. The background portrays the deeds of the protagonist, including a scene with troops on the right, and two other officers, perhaps shown training with spears, on the left. Such imagery usually promoted militaristic values such as bravery in the period, as the Netherlands underwent continuous warfare with Spain. Goltzius's technique includes fine pen strokes and delicate brown washes combined with red chalk additions on the face and hands, which add a degree of naturalism and finish to the drawing.

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Inscription

signed, lower center, in brown ink: [artist's monogram, retouched: HG]; verso of secondary support, upper right in graphite(?): £65; upper left, in graphite: 207420; upper left, in graphite: 35[circled]; center, in graphite: Exh. / Boymans Mus. Rotterdam / Hendrick Goltzius als Tekenaar cat 81; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] / 10; lower left, in graphite: 3

Provenance

?-1768

G. Braamkamp, Amsterdam;

1768

his sale, P. Yver, Amsterdam, 29 February 1768, no. 265.

ca. 1768-ca. 1780

Van Der Hoog, Amsterdam.

1780

his sale, Amsterdam,10 April 1780, no. 128

1780

Sold, P. Yver, Amsterdam, 30 October 1780, no. 3.

?-1782

Juda van Benjamin Senior, Amsterdam

1782

his sale, Jan Willem Smit, Amsterdam, 4 November 1782, no. 27

?-1859

John 2nd Lord Northwick (1770-1859), London

1921

his sale, "remaining portion of" his collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 5 July 1921, no. 79

ca. 1920s-ca. 1952

Sir Robert Witt (1872-1952), London (Lugt 2228b)

by 1959-1974

Dr. and Mrs. Frances Springell (1898-1974), Portinscale, Cumberland (Lugt 1049a)

1976

sold Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V., Amsterdam, 3 May 1976, lot 93

1994

with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd., London

1994

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen. H. Goltzius als tekenaar. Teylers Museum: Haarlem, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 38 , cat. no. 81

Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen. H. Goltzius als tekenaar. [Tentoonstelling] van 23 mei tot 13 juli, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, van 19 juli tot 31 augustus. Teylers Museum: Haarlem, 1958. cat. 81, p. 27, 38

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Francis Springell. London: Colnaghi, 1959. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 35

Reznicek, Emil Karel Josef. Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius. Utrecht: Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1961. no. K337, p. 392, fig. no. 68

Manchester City Art Gallery. Between Renaissance and Baroque; European Art, 1520-1600. 1965. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 35

Andrews, Keith. Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Dr and Mrs Francis Springell. Edinburgh. National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1965. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 12, no. 22

Goltzius, Hendrik, and Walter L. Strauss. Hendrik Goltzius, 1558-1617: The Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1977. under no. 252

Goltzius, Hendrick, and Walter L. Strauss. Hendrik Goltzius, 1558-1617: The Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York, NY: Abaris Books, 1977. under no. 252, p. 434

Filedt Kok, Jan Piet, "Proefdrukken uit Goltzius' atelier omstreeks 1587," Bulletin van he Rijksmuseum 39/4 (1991): pp. 363-74. p. 368

Reznicek, Emil Karel Josef, "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné," Master Drawings XXXI/3 (Autumn 1993): pp. 215-278.
part III, no. A68, p. 276

Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. cat. 23, pp. 39-40

Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: cat. no. 69, p. 11, pp.170-171; p.293; Reproduced: p. 171

Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 194-195, no. 54

Exhibition history

Hendrick Goltzius als Tekenaar. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (May 23 - July 13 1958); Teylers Museum, Haarlem (July 19 - August 31 1958).

Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell. Colnaghi, London (October 15 - November 11 1959).

Between Renaissance and Baroque. City Art Gallery, Manchester (March 10 - April 6 1965).

Old Master Drawings from the Collections of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (July to September 1965).

Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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