Annunciation to the Shepherds

1599

Jacques Razet

Publisher, Dutch, active 1589 - 1609

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 55.7 x 40.1 cm (21 15/16 x 15 13/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.595

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 24, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Mariette [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1788). Nicola Francesco Haym (Lugt 1972) or N. Hillier (Lugt 1974). George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834], Althorp (Lugt 2341a). (Etablissement pour la Diffusion et la Connaissance des Oeuvres d'Art, Monte Carlo (Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London)); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January 11, 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. 24, i/ii

Inscriptions

below image: Dum vigiles ovium pastores cura teneret, / Angelicas cernunt caeli per inania turmas / Laudibus ob genitum caeles tem extollere Patrem. / Salvatorem orbis, talique applandere cantu: / Summa Deo in superis reddatur gloria: terras / Pax hominesque beet, quibus est syncera voluntas. / Abrahamus Bloemaert Inven. I. Saenredam sculp. / Iac. Razet divulgavit et strenuo humanijsimoque viro D. Petro Mathiae Reipubl. Amsterredam. Scabino meritijsimo amicitiae ergo D. D. ipso Natali Di. Ao. 1599 / SHS; stamped on verso: 248

Watermarks

watermark in the center of the top section, obscured by image

Wikidata ID

Q76557282


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