Johan Gols [The Artist's Father]

1578

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrick Goltzius

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.9 × 10.2 cm (5 7/8 × 4 in.)
    sheet: 15.6 × 10.6 cm (6 1/8 × 4 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.74.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 224, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collection/s (black oval coat of arms surmounted by crown and violet crest surmounted with wings; neither in Lugt). (Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2015 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 Hertzberger: no. 191

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 224.

Inscriptions

across top of plate: ANNO 1578; in image, in frame: IOHAN GOLS VAN KEISERSWERDT SEINES ALTERS · 44 ·; in image, on cartouche at bottom: Wan man als khan, aussrouten und vertreiben / Moiss doch die lieb, ewig bleiben (Though man may destroy and banish all, love exists eternally); in image, below inscription on cartouche: HGoltzius; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: B.171; H. 191 / 16082

Wikidata ID

Q77008447

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