Bartholomaeus Spranger and his Late Wife Christina Muller

c. 1600

Aegidius Sadeler II

Artist, Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Bartholomaeus Spranger

Artist, Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.4 x 42.2 cm (11 3/16 x 16 5/8 in.) (trimmed)

  • Accession

    2012.92.593

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 332, State undesc./ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 7, 2007; 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. 332, undesc./ii

Inscriptions

in image, in cartouche at top right: MORS INIQVA QVID TANTVM / DECVS RAPIS? PIETAS AEQVA / QVAE ET MORTVAM SERVAS; in image, in oval around portrait at right: CHRISTINA MVLLERINA VXOR B. SPRANGER; in image, at bottom left: QVID ANTE DIEM VVLTIS? TE / TEMPVS VETAT OCCIDERE. TE / ARTES PRAECLARAE CADERE.

Wikidata ID

Q76557278

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