Section and Interior of the Sanctuary of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

1583

Pedro Perret

Engraver, Flemish, 1555 - c. 1625

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 47 × 34.4 cm (18 1/2 × 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein no. 53

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This rectangular, light brown cover is marbled with darker brown, and the edges are worn and chipped. The spine, to our left, is bound by a light tan strip and divided vertically by five projecting ribs spaced along its height. Four small dark brown spots appear on the upper right corner, with a scattering of similar spots over the lower left section.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)

Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB

1544

The Statue of Pasquino

Italian 16th Century

1544

The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'

Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca

1562

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam, 1954-1868: XVII.56.53.

Inscriptions

Lettered along the top margin: "Seccion i parte interior del Sagrario del Altar Maior de San Lornencio el Real del Escurial"
Lettered LL: "P. Perret fe." and LR: "1583"

Wikidata ID

Q77259589

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