Suzannah before Daniel

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: 27.6 x 39.1 cm (10 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.) (trimmed within platemark at bottom)

  • Accession

    2012.92.615

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 52, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 19, 1978; 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. 52, only

Inscriptions

at bottom left: IWtewael inventor. GS sculpsit. / Par capulare senum precio precibusqué minisqué / struxêre insidias casta Susanna tibi; at bottom centre: Daniel. 13. Cap; at bottom right: Iamqué neci stabat mulier devota futurae, / cum puer in lucem coepta nefanda trahit / CVSichem excudit

Wikidata ID

Q76557344

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