Apollo as Sol

c.1591

Jacob Matham

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1631

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.8 x 22.4 cm (13 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.) (trimmed)

  • Accession

    2012.92.541

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 175, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christie's, London, December 5, 2006, lot 46); (via Salamander Fine Arts Limited, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 182, i/i

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 175, i/iii

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom centre: C C Harlemensis Inuent IMatham sculp.; below image: Astrorum Princeps, Caeli decus, orbis et Anni / Arbiter: ad nutum Tempora, Resque gero. / Als Prins eerbaer, den hemel claer, seer schoon verchierick / De weerelt swaer, tyt, stont, en Jaer, alles regierick.

Wikidata ID

Q76557135

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