Grotesque Heads, 1638

Not on View

etching on laid paper

plate: 8.2 × 11.6 cm (3 1/4 × 4 9/16 in.)

sheet: 8.5 × 12.1 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)

New Hollstein, no. 24, State only

1971.67.3

Bartholomeus Breenbergh (artist) Dutch, 1598 - 1657

Jacques de Gheyn III (artist after) Dutch, c. 1596 - 1641

lower right in plate: 1638. / DGheyn

recto: none; verso: D'Arenberg Collection (Lugt 567)

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567); (Lucien Goldschmidt, New York); purchased by NGA, 1971.

Arenberg, A. d', Prince
Goldschmidt, Inc., Lucien

1980: Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1980-1981, no. 88, repro.

1984: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

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

1981: Ackley, Clifford S. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1981:, 88.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2000, "De Gheyn III," no. 24, state only.