The Virgin and Child on the Crescent

1607

Helias van den Bossche

Artist, Dutch, active c. 1600 - 1610

Peter Overadt

Publisher, German, active 1596 - 1632

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut to platemark): 28.7 x 18.1 cm (11 5/16 x 7 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.32.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 446

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

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

lower right in plate: Abraham. Bloemaert / Inventor / helias van den / Bossche Sculptr.; lower left in plate: peter. ouerradt / excud. 1607; lower center in plate: VIRGO PARENS. nitido quam SOL illustrat amictu / SIDERAque exornant cal cantem cornua LUNAE / DIVIna da luce frui. da temnere fluxas / Has rerum species nostros miserata labores / Quae PIAVis. et per NATUM potes omnia MAGNA (Virgin Mother, whom the sun illuminates with a shining veil and whom the stars adorn, you who tread upon the horns of the moon concede us to enjoy the divine light, to disdain those fickle appearances of things and our pitiful endeavors. For your force is pious, and through the Son you can accomplish everything); center verso in graphite: 30/5

Wikidata ID

Q75430711

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