Saint Catherine in the Clouds, c. 1620

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.2 × 19.8 cm (11 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)

sheet: 34.5 × 22.3 cm (13 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 1, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1973.22.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower left: P. Paul Rubens fecit.; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: su/k/5; at bottom center, in brown ink, in later hand: S. Catharina; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: IVAL / J.CSS.2CI 590.35; along bottom, in graphite, in later hand: GB? from the Marmaduke Constable Maxwell / Lord Herries Collection / MS-

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 111.

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

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