The Seven Virtues

1588

Jacob Matham

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1631

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.9 x 20.9 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 30.8 x 21.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.565

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 352, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 5, 1990; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 241, i/iii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 352, i/iii (as attributed to Matham)

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: 7 (altered into 8 with pen and brown ink); in image, at bottom centre: HG. Inuent.; below image: Sola beat virtus, nec opes, nec sceptra iuuabunt, / Haec ubi defuerit vilia cuncta puta. / Cuius praecipuas una sub imagine partes / Caelator docta sedulus arte dedit.

Wikidata ID

Q76557196

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