Cleopatra

c.1598

Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Jan Muller, after Adriaen de Vries

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 38.3 x 25.5 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.6 x 28 cm (16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.576

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 80, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 23, 1985; 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. 45, only

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. 80, ii/iv

Inscriptions

below image, at centre: Prodiga luxuries rerum, vetitique HYMENAEI, / Haec scelerum tandem praemia digna ferunt.; below image, at right: Adrianus de Vries inuent. / Joan Muller sculp.

Wikidata ID

Q76557222

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