Samarian Woman at the Well

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: 18.6 x 13.7 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.603

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 36, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alexander Anderdon Weston [1822-1901], London (Lugt 65); Dr. Christian David Ginsburg [1831-1914], Palmer's Green, England (Lugt 1145); (John Cassayd-Smith Master Drawings, Minneapolis); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December, 1991; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

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. 36, i/iii

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 428, i/v

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom centre: H. Goltzius inuent; in image, at bottom right: I. Saenredam sculpt; in image, at bottom left: 2; below image, at bottom: Quae Solita est viles e fante hauvive liquores / Nunc vivas Christi numine promit aquas, / Balthasarus. Schoneus; at centre on verso, in later hand, in pencil: outline of a female face

Wikidata ID

Q76557303

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