Altar of the Christian Faith, 1561

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Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash and blue watercolor on laid paper mounted and folded to form miniature design for a triptych alterpiece; script in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

Overall (approximate): 20.3 x 12.5 cm (8 x 4 15/16 in.)
support: 23 x 15.5 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1990.32.1

Artists / Makers

Hermann tom Ring (artist) German, 1521 - 1597

Image Use

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Inscription

on middle panel, lower left in black ink: ANNO / 1561; lower right in black ink: [artist's monogram]; across left side of central panel in pen and ink: DE TEIN / GEBODE GODES / Du schalt nyne ander / Godde beneuen my hebben / du schalt dy myne Belder / noch eynige gelijckenysse / macken, noch des datt dar / bouen ym Hemmel, noch / des dat dar nedden op der / Eerden, odder des dat ym / Water under der Eerden is. Bedde se nycht ann / und deyne enn nychtt. / Du schalst de namen / des Heren dynes Goddes / nicht vergeues voerenn / Gedencke des Sabbatt / daeges. Dat du ennee / hillygest.; across right side of central panel in pen and ink: EXOD. 22 / DEVTEREN. 5. / Du schalst dine Vader un; SEE COMMENTARY FOR REST

Provenance

(Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

Exhibition History

1996: die Maler tom Ring, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, 1996, no. 63, repro.

Bibliography

1996: Lorenz, Angelika. Die Maler tom Ring. Exh. cat. 2 vols. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, 1996, I: 53-56, 67; II: 234, 362, 586, no. 63.