Night, c.1595-1598

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series Title

Four Times of Day (Plate 4)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.2 x 15.1 cm (8 3/8 x 5 15/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 100, State i/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.653

Artists / Makers

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom center, in image, in plate: HG Invent; below image, numbered at left, in plate: 4; below image, in plate: Nocte vacant curis animi, placidamqué quieten / Percipiunt, gratoqué indulgent omnia somno. / C. Schonaeus. (At night the spirit is free of cares and enjoys pleasant rest; everything delights in sweet repose. C[ornelius] Schonaeus.)

[Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. _Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings._ Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 217.]

Provenance

Pierre Mariette [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1789). Franz Rechberger? [1771-1843], Vienna (Lugt 2133). (Christopher Mendez, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mariette, Pierre II
Mendez, Christopher

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. 100, i/iii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 687, i/iii