The Triumph of Isaac, 1559 (published 1638)

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series Title

Patientiae Triumphus ... Elegantissimis Imaginibus Expressus (The Triumph of Patience)

Medium

engraving and etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.5 × 39 cm (12 × 15 3/8 in.)
plate: 20.8 × 26.2 cm (8 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 437, State iv/iv

Accession Number

1974.53.6

Artists / Makers

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert (artist) Netherlandish, 1522 - 1590

Maerten van Heemskerck (artist after) Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

Joannes Galle (publisher) Flemish, probably 1600 - 1676

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center, in plate, in image: ISAAC.; lower right, in plate, numbered in image: 2; below image, in plate: Sustinet impositum veluti virtute CAMELVS / Pondus, onusque sibi, mitem facilemque oneranti / Sepræbet, nec non flectit sua terga retorta: / Vnica sic ISAC soboles fide patris ABRAMI / Dictis audit, obedivit, capitisque pericla / pectore non dubio manifesta subire paratus. (Like a camel, which bears the load put upon it with goodness and is docile and willing towards he who thus encumbers it and even lowers down its curved back, so Isaac, an only son, hearkened trustingly to the words of Abraham, his father, and was unhesitatingly prepared to brave real mortal danger. [translation from Veldman, Ilja. "Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert and Heemskerck's allegories." In Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch humanism in the sixteenth century, p.63. Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977.])

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Craddock and Barnard, London); purchased by NGA, 1974.

Associated Names

Craddock and Barnard

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 Hertzberger.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Maarten van Heemskerck. Parts I and II. Compiled by Ilja M. Veldman and edited by Ger Luijten. Roosendaal: Koninklijke van Poll, 1993.