The Table of Cebes, 1592

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Medium

engraving on three sheets of laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

sheet (three combined): 67.2 x 125.7 cm (26 7/16 x 49 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 194, State i/ii

Accession Number

1989.46.1

Artists / Makers

Jacob Matham (artist) Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Inscription

In image, at top center: DOMICILIVM SALVTIS; in image, at bottom left: Hocce artis chalcographice Symbolum, / Humanissimo Dño Petro Boom, viro / Consulari, Amstelredamensi, Cebetis Tabule / flagrantissimo cultori, affini suo HGoltzius / Inuentor amicitie ergo D. D. / Jacobus Mathamius Goltzij priuignus sculp. / Anno. 1592; below image, in nine columns: Dircaei commenta Sophi, monumenta Cebetis: / Non vili caelata manu, nec digna sub aeuo / Quae pereant vllo, quin aere perennius omni / Cerne opus, enucleans humanae exordia vitae ... / ... Felices anime, quas, ô quas inclyta virtus / Terras despicere, et celi conuexa tueri / Edocuit, vos templa vocant vestita Orichalco, / Chrysolito, ac flammas fulgore equante Pyoropo. / Franco Estius

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 24, 1989; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
McCarron, Paul

Exhibition History

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

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

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; no. 253

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Léna Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 194, state i/ii.