Le Coup de Lance, 1631

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 60.2 x 43 cm (23 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.)

sheet: 64 x 47 cm (25 3/16 x 18 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 9, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2003.19.1

Artists / Makers

Boëtius Adams Bolswert (artist) Flemish, 1580 - 1633

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: IESVS CRVCIFIXVS; across bottom of plate: Venerunt milites et quidem primi fregerunt...; lower left in plate: P. P. Rubens pinxit; lower center in plate: Cum Privilegijs Regis Christianissimi, Serenissime Infantis, et Ordinum Confederatorum; lower right in plate: B. à Bolswert Sculp. et excudit; lower center verso in graphite: 15/-; Museum at Anvers

Provenance

(Jan Johnson, Montreal); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Johnson, Jan

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge