The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Two Angels

c. 1593

Aegidius Sadeler II

Artist, Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.5 × 22 cm (11 5/8 × 8 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.2 × 23.9 cm (13 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.96.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 79


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a). (Nicolaas Teeuwisse OHG, Berlin); purchased 2014 by NGA.

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 Hertzberge: no. 79

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Hans von Aachen. Compiled by Joachim Jacoby and edited by Ger Luijten and Robert Zijlma. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1996, no. 37.

Inscriptions

below image, in plate: Auctori rerum nascenti e Virgine passim / Laeta uvas, poma, et lilia fundit humus. / Nos animae viles cur huic non rite paramus / Mentem animumq[ue] pium, peraq[ue], corda, Deo?; below image, at right: F. Valerini; lower center, in plate below engraved inscription: S: C: M:tis pict Iohan ab Ach. pinxit Egidius Sadeler Scalps: Veron: / by later hand, lower cetner verso in graphite: Aegidius Sadeler(?) / geb. c. 1570 in Anvers(?) 1629--Prag / Thieme Becker 290

Watermarks

anchor in a circle?

Wikidata ID

Q77007126


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