Christ Carrying the Cross

1606

Willem van Swanenburgh

Artist, Dutch, 1580 - 1612

Christoffel van Sichem I

Publisher, Dutch, 1546 - 1624

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29 x 38.6 cm (11 7/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.5 x 42.6 cm (13 9/16 x 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.613

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 53, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Alexandre Andréevitch Bezborodko [1834-1862], St. Petersburg (Lugt 1629). (R. E. Lewis, San Rafael, California); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 22, 1984; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger; no. 53, i/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom right: IWtewael inuentor. / GSwaneb: sculp: / CVSichem editore; below image, at left: Aspice crudeles poenas & dira luentem / Supplicia, humanas qui superauit opes / Uni odiisque vivo furiisque atrocibus instat / Effera gens, quondam grex populusque Dei; below image, at centre: Luce. 23. / Math. 27; below image, at right: Dum Pilate times terreni Principis iram / Non metuis summi ius temerare Dei. / Si tamen haud aliter potuit Patris ira piari, / Poena fuit tale subisse iugum; below image, at left: IIII

Wikidata ID

Q76557339

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