Wisdom Conquering Ignorance, c.1597

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 50.8 x 35.9 cm (20 x 14 1/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 115, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.592

Artists / Makers

Aegidius Sadeler II (artist) Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist after) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in image, at bottom centre: B: Spranger inuent. / Eg: Sadeler sculp; below image, at bottom left: Non datur; eximias veneret ut INSCIVS ARTES, / Solus eas quaerens noscere gestit AMOR; below image, at right: Sed datur; ut spretâ iaceat calcatus ab ARTE / INSCIVS, et solido cassus honore ruat; below image, at centre: INSCIVS NON HONORABITur

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 6, 2006; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2013: Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 115, only