Night

c.1595-1598

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, after Hendrik Goltzius

Associated Names
Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist After, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

The image depicts three people in an indoor setting. In the foreground, a woman is shown in a seated position with her eyes closed and arms crossed over her chest. She has a headpiece covering her hair and wears a dress with a ruffled collar. Beside her, a cradle with a baby is visible, and there are decorative objects nearby, including pottery and a mask. In the background, a man is lying in a canopied bed, his upper body exposed, looking up at another woman who is leaning over him. This woman wears a detailed dress with lace details and may be holding an object in her hand. The setting appears to be a bedroom with a heavy curtain creating a canopy for the bed. There is a lit candle on a stand beside the bed and another lit candle on the floor next to a cat. The walls have framed artworks hanging, one depicting a landscape scene with sailing ships and figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.2 x 15.1 cm (8 3/8 x 5 15/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.653

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 100, State i/iii

  • Series Title

    Four Times of Day (Plate 4)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Mariette [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1789). Franz Rechberger? [1771-1843], Vienna (Lugt 2133). (Christopher Mendez, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; 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. 100, 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. 687, i/iii

Inscriptions

bottom center, in image, in plate: HG Invent; below image, numbered at left, in plate: 4; below image, in plate: Nocte vacant curis animi, placidamqué quieten / Percipiunt, gratoqué indulgent omnia somno. / C. Schonaeus. (At night the spirit is free of cares and enjoys pleasant rest; everything delights in sweet repose. C[ornelius] Schonaeus.)
[Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 217.]

Wikidata ID

Q76557587

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