The Visitation, 1593

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series Title

Life of the Virgin [Hirschmann 9-14]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 47.4 x 35.2 cm (18 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 9, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1994.21.2

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Netherlandish 16th Century (artist)

Albrecht Dürer (related artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, in image, in plate: 1593 / HG; lower left, numbered in image, in plate: 2; below image, in plate: Plena Deo virgo, coelesti Pneumate foeta, / Cognatam Helisaben montana per aspera visit; / Exultat sterilis foecunda, exultat et infans / Iam tunc in gravidae genitricis ventre Prophetes. / F. Estius (The maiden, full of God, pregnant by the Holy Ghost, went through the barren mountains to visit her relative Elizabeth. The infertile pregnant woman rejoiced, as did the child, then already a prophet, in the pregnant mother's womb. F[ranco] Estius)

[Latin translations from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. _Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings._ Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 210.]

Provenance

Paul McCarron, New York; purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

McCarron, Paul

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1921: Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1977: Strauss 1977, 318.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 9, ii/ii.