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series Title

Gentlemen and Ladies in Costumes of the Time [Hollstein 340-351]

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.8 x 18.2 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 in.)

sheet: 26.4 x 19.6 cm (10 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 347

Accession Number

1994.60.21

Artists / Makers

Jacob Gole (artist) Dutch, 1660 - 1724

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: J. Gole fe. et ex.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 2.50.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Wessely 347; ; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: L[%?}; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: CM

Provenance

Unidentified collector (Lugt 2930); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.

Exhibition History

2008: Everyday Life in Black and White. Dutch Mezzotints from the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, 2008, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1889: Wessely 1889, 347.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1952: VII, no. 103.