Ruben
c. 1585; published 1643
Jan Sadeler I after Crispen van den Broeck
Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600
Publisher, Dutch, 1586/1587 - 1652
Artist After, Netherlandish, 1523 - c. 1591
Artwork overview
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Medium
set of twelve hand-colored engravings on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (cut inside platemark): 21.8 x 14.1 cm (8 9/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2005.128.4.a
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 66, State ii/ii
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Series Title
The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Associated Artworks
See all 5 artworksThe Twelve Sons of Jacob
Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher
1580
Levi
Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher
1585
Zebulon
Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher
1585
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2005 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXI (Johannes Sadeler I), no. 66, ii/ii.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Crispijn van den Broeck, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2011: Part I, no. 54, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: RUBEN; lower left in plate: Crispyn va Broec iventor; lower center: CJVissher Excudebat; lower right in plate: 1; in margin below image, in plate: Primus Iacobi natorum nomine Ruben: / Doni excellens imperioq prior. / Sed quia foedavi stratum genitoris ab illis / Exclusus, perij seu levis unda breui. (I am the first of Jacob's sons, Ruben by name. I excel by my gifts, and am the foremost in power. But because I have defiled my father's bed I have been shut out of them, and in a brief span I am spent like an insubstantial wave. [translation from Veldman, Ilja M., and H. J. de Jonge, "The sons of Jacob: the twelve patriarchs in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and popular literature," Simiolus, vol. 15 (1985), no. 3, p. 195.])
Wikidata ID
Q76343347