Artist Painting a Nude Woman: Allegory of Visual Perception

c. 1598; published after 1616

Johannes Janssonius

Publisher, Dutch, 1588 - 1664

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

    plate: 24.4 x 18.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 24.6 x 18.5 cm (9 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.596

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 106, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Franz Rechberger [1771-1843], Vienna (Lugt 2133). (David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 23, 1975; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1980: XXIII, no. 106, iii/iii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2012; Part IV, no. 716, iii/iii.

Inscriptions

in image at lower left, in plate: HG. Inuent. I. Saenr. scu. / / Ioann: Iassonius. excudit, 1616.; in margin below image, in plate: Haec memini nocuisse atque oblectasse videntes. [I know from experience that this affords the beholder both harm and pleasure]

Wikidata ID

Q76557283

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