Anna Maria van Schurman

after 1657

Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen, Clement de Jonghe

Associated Names
Cornelis van Dalen the Younger

Artist, Dutch, 1638 - 1664

Clement de Jonghe

Publisher, Dutch, c. 1624 - 1677

Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen

Artist After, English, 1593 - 1661

The image is a portrait engraving of Anna Maria van Schurman, depicting her from the waist up in a frontal position. She has a calm expression, slightly arched eyebrows, a straight nose, and full lips. Her hair is styled away from her face with curls around her ears and neck. She wears a draped garment with voluminous sleeves and holds a small object in her raised right hand. The other hand rests near her waist. The portrait is in an oval frame with her name. Cherubs on either side of the frame and a church tower in the background are visible. Mathematical instruments are incorporated into the border design.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.3 x 24 cm (11 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.139.43

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 153 ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium (only shown in Washington), 2025-2026, cat. no. 15, repro.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. "German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700." Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1949, vol. 5, no. 153, ii/iii.

2025

  • Treanor, Virginia, and Van Dam Frederica, editors. Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750. Exh. cat. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium, 2025-2026: cat. no. 15, 46.

Inscriptions

on oval frame, in plate: ANNA MARIA A SCHURMAN.; lower center in plate (on cartellino): Tanta fides caelo, tanta est fiducia, divae / Hoccine Schurmannae vultus in aere micet?/ Disce gravis, sculptor, quae sit vesania caepti: / Haec, ais, haec aevi Sideris umbra tui est?/ Tun' similem praestes aetas cui nulla secundam / Edidit, et non est ulla datura parem? / CONSTANTER; botton margin in plate: Cornelius Ioson van Ceulen Pinxit Clemendt de Ionghe excudebat C. v. Dalen Iunior sculpsit; by later hand, lower left on mount, in graphite: Cornelis van Dalen the younger. Amsterdam 1638-1664 Anna Maria van Schurman, painter + poetess, / Hollstein V, p. 120. 153 ii/iii; by later hand, upper right verso, in graphite: 3,10; by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: C'9 / 10/6 / 4938; by later hand, upper right mount verso, in graphite: 63, 281; by later hand, lower center mount verso, in graphite: 2/479

Markings

None.

Watermarks

Arms of Amsterdam

Wikidata ID

Q76559079

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