Allegory of Transience ("Homo Bulla"), 1594

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.2 x 15.6 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

sheet: 26.5 x 19.4 cm (10 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 128

Accession Number

2000.55.1

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: QUIS EVADET?; lower right in image: HG (in monogram) 1594; lower center in plate: Flos nouus, et verna fragrans argenteus aura / Marcescit subitò, perit, ali, perit illa venustas. / Sic et vita hominum iam nunc nascentibus, eheu, / Instar abit bullae vaniq. elapsa vaporis.; lower right in plate: F. Estius.

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David
von Hoffmann, Ladislaus, Mr.

Bibliography

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

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 128.