An Archer Shooting a Crossbow

1579

Attributed to Cherubino Alberti (formerly Cornelis Cort) after Lelio Orsi

Associated Names
Cherubino Alberti

Artist, Roman, 1553 - 1615

Cornelis Cort

Artist, Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Lelio Orsi

Artist After, Italian, 1525 - 1587

The image shows a person leaning forward and balancing on an architectural structure resembling an arch. They are posed with one leg bent and resting on the arch and the other leg stretched behind. The person appears to be handling a crossbow on their arm, their face obscured by their tilted head. They wear a cap with a small protrusion. The person is clad in a sleeveless garment with a waist belt, tights, and simple shoes. An arrow quiver on their back holds some arrows. The background is plain, highlighting the detailed figure and architectural base. The bottom of the image is marked with the date "1579" and the signature "Regij."

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut inside platemark): 22.1 x 14 cm (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.131.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 48, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971). (Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 22.

Bibliography

1948

  • Bierens de Haan, Johan Catharinus Justus. L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais. The Hague, 1948.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Cornelis Cort, Manfred Sellink author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 48, state i/ii.

2005

  • Nicolaas Teeuwisse. Selected Prints I. Berlin, 2005: no. 8.

2006

  • King, Catherine. "An Etching and Lelio Orsi's House." Print Quarterly.23 (2006): 176-182.

2007

  • Parshall, Peter, and Naoko Takahatake. "Cherubino Alberti, Lelio Orsi and Corenlis Cort." Print Quarterly. 24 (2007): 430-431.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Regij. 1579; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 13875

Wikidata ID

Q76360517

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