Presentation in the Temple

Jacques de Bie after Maarten de Vos

Associated Names
Jacques de Bie

Artist, Flemish, c.1581 - 1640

Adriaen Collaert

Publisher, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Maarten de Vos

Artist After, Netherlandish, 1532 - 1603

The image shows a group of people in a room with stone arches and columns. In the foreground, a man is holding a baby close to his face on a raised platform. Around them, several other individuals are gathered. A man with a long beard is holding a basket, another man wears a cap and robe, and a kneeling woman looks up towards the baby. A seated woman gestures towards the baby on a chair, with a cloth covering her hair, and an open book in her lap. In the background, various figures are engaged in different activities. The room has a checkered floor pattern, adding structure to the setting, and the lighting highlights the arches and columns.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower margin in plate: Accepit cum in ulnas suas, et benedixit Deum, et dixit, Nunc dimittis Seruum tuum Domine, Secundum verbum tuum in pace. Luc. 2./ M. de Vos invent. Iacob. de Bye Sculp. Adr. Collaert excud.; by later hand, verso upper right, in graphite: 91.11; by later hand, verso lower center, in graphite: Holl. IV, p. 202 Collaert from a set of 51

Wikidata ID

Q76559048

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