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DOI Artikel:Kozak, Anna; De Herdt, Jan [Ill.]: Jan de Herdt, a forgotten 17th century Flemish painter
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32. Jan de Herdt (?), Doubting Thomas, drawing, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
33. Jan de Herdt (?), The Wandering Jew, drawing, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
There are three other drawings in the National Museum in Warsaw, namely the Saint with
a Book66 (Fig. 31), Doubting Thomas67 (Fig. 32) and the one known as The Wandering Jew68
(Fig. 33), that have been associated witli Herdt. They are all signed with the monogram ,,1DH”
in ink, which is probably why Alwin Schultz, who analysed the album from which they come,
attributed them to Herdt. The drawing representing a saint with a book (Fig. 31) is dated 1642 at
the bottom on the left. It is a rather poor, student work, and Herdt’s authorship is apparently
precluded by the watermark (a man with a club on a shield under a crown, and the letters WT,
Fig. 26), recorded in The Nostitz Papers69 (No. 534—542), which appears in a similar form on
Viennese documents from 1637 (No. 534) and 1649 (No. 537), which is when Herdt was most
probably still in Antwerp. FIerdt’s authorship seems morę convincing in the case of the Doubt-
■66. Pencil,lights in white, on blue-grounded paper, 298X 203 mm,inv. no. 146564/100 MN; A. Schultz, op.cit.,col. 143; A. Ko-
zak, op. cit., p. 50 (as St Jerome).
'fil. Pen in a brownish tonę, washed in grey, chequered pattern in pencil, 291 x91 mm, inv. no. 146564/164 MN; A. Schultz
ibid; A. Kozak, ibid.
<>8. Red chalk, 318x198 mm, inv. no. 146546/83 MN; A. Schultz, ibid; A. Kozak, ibid.
•69. The Nostitz Papers, op. cit.. Nos. 534—542.
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33. Jan de Herdt (?), The Wandering Jew, drawing, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
There are three other drawings in the National Museum in Warsaw, namely the Saint with
a Book66 (Fig. 31), Doubting Thomas67 (Fig. 32) and the one known as The Wandering Jew68
(Fig. 33), that have been associated witli Herdt. They are all signed with the monogram ,,1DH”
in ink, which is probably why Alwin Schultz, who analysed the album from which they come,
attributed them to Herdt. The drawing representing a saint with a book (Fig. 31) is dated 1642 at
the bottom on the left. It is a rather poor, student work, and Herdt’s authorship is apparently
precluded by the watermark (a man with a club on a shield under a crown, and the letters WT,
Fig. 26), recorded in The Nostitz Papers69 (No. 534—542), which appears in a similar form on
Viennese documents from 1637 (No. 534) and 1649 (No. 537), which is when Herdt was most
probably still in Antwerp. FIerdt’s authorship seems morę convincing in the case of the Doubt-
■66. Pencil,lights in white, on blue-grounded paper, 298X 203 mm,inv. no. 146564/100 MN; A. Schultz, op.cit.,col. 143; A. Ko-
zak, op. cit., p. 50 (as St Jerome).
'fil. Pen in a brownish tonę, washed in grey, chequered pattern in pencil, 291 x91 mm, inv. no. 146564/164 MN; A. Schultz
ibid; A. Kozak, ibid.
<>8. Red chalk, 318x198 mm, inv. no. 146546/83 MN; A. Schultz, ibid; A. Kozak, ibid.
•69. The Nostitz Papers, op. cit.. Nos. 534—542.
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