Fortune Distributing her Gifts

1590

Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Herman Jansz Muller

Publisher, Netherlandish, c. 1540 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 50.6 × 91.1 cm (19 15/16 × 35 7/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.572

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 33, State iii/v


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Horace Walpole; his sale, June 13, 1842, lot 1216.[1] (Christie's London, June 29, 1978, lot 16); (via P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] The Christie's sale catalogue in which the present print appears notes that the mannerist prints in the sale came from a dissembled portfolio once belonging to Walpole.

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. 71, ii/iv

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 33, iii/v

Inscriptions

in image, at left: Cornelius Corneliades Harlemen / inuenit et pinxit; in image, at right: Johannes Mullerus Amsterod: sculpsit.; below image: Me rerum Dominam celebrant, Divanque potentem / Mortales faciunt, et super astra locant. / Munifica dicor nunc hos extollere dextra, / Nunc illos varijs exagitare malis. / Praecipiti videor, rapidaeque insistere sphaerae, / Quòd mihi non constem lubrica, simque vaga. / Praevelant oculos, rectum discernere bruta / Quod nequeam: justis dura, benigna malis. / Occiput est calvum, propendent fronte capilli, / Obvia quòd possim, non fugitiva, capi. / At cum provideat divina potentia rebus, / Nomen inane mihi, non mihi numen adest.; below image, at right: Harman Muller excud:; in image, at top left: Prudentissimis Reip. Harlemensis Moderatoribus, / Adraino Berckenrodio, Guilielmo Dei manno, / Thoma Thomae f., et Gerardo Guilielmio, Dominis / suis plurimum observandis, Cornelius Corneliades / Pictor, gratus ciuis dedicabat, An. M. D. XC.

Wikidata ID

Q76557209


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