Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1593

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.9 x 20.3 cm (9 x 8 in.)

sheet: 24.5 x 21.1 cm (9 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 6, State ii/iv

Accession Number

2012.92.583

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Herman Jansz Muller (publisher) Netherlandish, c. 1540 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom right: Joannes Muller: fecit. 1593; below image: Quid mortem Infanti moliris percitus irâ? / An metuis Regno, Saeue Tyranne, tuo? Falleris, ah, demens: non haec inferna requirit, / Qui dare, quandò libet, Regna superma potest; below image, at bottom centre: Harman Mul: excud.

Provenance

Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt). (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 21, 2004; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Lundh, Ture
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.

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. 15, ii/iii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 6, ii/iv