The Golden Age

1644

Netherlandish 17th Century

Artist

Jean Le Blond I

Publisher, French, 1590/1594 - 1666

Netherlandish 17th Century after Nicolaes de Bruyn after Abraham Bloemaert

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut to platemark): 44.2 x 69.1 cm (17 3/8 x 27 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.77.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roethlisberger 1993, no. 70, copy 3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William H. Schab Master Prints and Drawings Inc., New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Roethlisberger, Marcel G. Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints. 2 vols. Doornspijk, 1993.

2014

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Nicolaes de Bruyn. Compiled by Lorena A. Baines and edited by Nadine M. Orenstein. Ouderkerk aan den Ijssell: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2014, no. 215, copy b.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: le Blond exc.; lower right in cartouche: Auria Saturno Butilabant Secula Rege / Nectaris et passim flumina lactis Erant / Spontedecus florum tellus inculta ferebat / Bacchiq[ue] et Cereris Sponte ferebat opes. / 1644; lower left, in brown ink by a later hand: 46

Wikidata ID

Q76335889

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