Bartholomaeus Spranger and his Late Wife Christina Muller, c. 1600

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.3 x 41.4 cm (11 9/16 x 16 5/16 in.) (trimmed)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 332, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.594

Artists / Makers

Aegidius Sadeler II (artist) Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

Marcus Christoph Sadeler (publisher) Flemish, 1614 - 1650

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, in cartouche at top right: MORS INIQVA QVID TANTVM / DECVS RAPIS? PIETAS AEQVA / QVAE ET MORTVAM SERVAS; in image, in oval around portrait at right: CHRISTINA MVLLERINA VXOR B. SPRANGER; in image, at bottom left: QVID ANTE DIEM VVLTIS? TE / TEMPVS VETAT OCCIDERE. TE / ARTES PRAECLARAE CADERE; below image, at centre: Priuatas lacrymas Bart. Sprangeri Egid. Sadeler miratus artem et amantem redamans, publicas fecit: et / eideim promutua beneuolentia dedicauit. Pragae Anno Seculari; below image, at right: Marco Sadeler excudit

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 6, 2007; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

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. 332, ii/ii