Lion Hunt
Artist, Flemish, 1586 - 1659
Schelte Adams Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 42.8 x 59.8 cm (16 7/8 x 23 9/16 in.)
sheet: 43 x 56 cm (16 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2000.7.6
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 298
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
2007
Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007
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
Inscriptions
in image, lower left: P. P. Rubens pinxit; in image, lower left: Cum Privilegis Regis Christianissimi; Serenissime Infantis, et Ordinum Confoederatorum; lower right in image: S. a Bolswert sculp. et excud; across bottom in plate: Excellentissimo Heroi ALEXANDRO CROY, CHIMAY, D'ARENBERGHE Principi...S. à Bolswert D.C.
Wikidata ID
Q75426079