Ephraim Bonus

Jan Lievens

Artist, Dutch, 1607 - 1674

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within platemark): 34 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.18.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 20, State v/viii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Philip and Judith Benedict; purchased by NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Milwaukee Art Museum, 2008-2009, no. 87.

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 center in plate: Dor. EPHRAIM BONVS, MEDICVS HEBRAEVS / alter Avenzooar grandi sub judice, magnus / in medicis, magni dicipulus que patris. ; lower left in plate: Ionannes Lyvius fecit

Wikidata ID

Q76343242


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