Satan Challenges God to Remove his Protection from Job
1562
Artist, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on laid paper, incised for transfer
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 19.2 x 24.8 cm (7 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
mount: 28.5 x 37.8 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2010.93.23
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(P. & D. Colnaghi, London, by 1958); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1958; bequest to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1975
Drawing: Techniques and Types. The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1975, no. A 14.
1991
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 73 (cat. by Frederick A. den Broeder).
2012
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 28-29, no. 3 (entry by Rozemarijn Landsman).
2016
Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, NGA, 2016.
Bibliography
1993
Veldman, Ilja M., compiler. The New Hollstein. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts 1450-1700. Maarten van Heemskerck. Edited by Ger Luitjen. 2 parts. Roosendaal, 1993-1994: pt. 1, 140 (under no. 164).
1994
Harris, Ann Sutherland. Review of Frederick A. den Broeder. Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. Master Drawings 32, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 68.
Inscriptions
signed, dated, and numbered by artist, on three clouds at lower right in pen and brown ink: 1562 / 4 / M. Heemskerck / inventor; by unknown hand [old Dutch script], across middle verso in graphite: Historie van Job/no 30--van Heemskercke
Wikidata ID
Q64594611