The Astrologer

Not on View

Medium

etching

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 12.6 x 9.3 cm (4 15/16 x 3 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 8

Accession Number

1943.3.1504

Artists / Makers

Ferdinand Bol (artist) Dutch, 1616 - 1680

Image Use

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Provenance

Adolf Daniel Crakau [died before 1888], Breslau (Lugt 89); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 206); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Crakau, Adolf Daniel
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 53.

1956: Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 8.

1971: A Selection of 17th Century Intaglio Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971-1972, no. 2.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge