Saint Luke Painting the Virgin

1580s?

Raphael Sadeler I

Artist, Flemish, 1560/1561 - 1628 or 1632

Raphael Sadeler I, after Bartholomaeus Spranger

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 × 12.6 cm (7 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 29.2 × 22 cm (11 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.155.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 65


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2017 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. 65

Inscriptions

lower right in image: B. Spranger invent. R. Sadeler fec.; lower center in plate: An pueri, an magnae genitricis imagine vultum / Aspiciam LVCA; reddis utrumque benè / Bluandulus est natus bland est virguncula mater / Artificum destrae quodque imentur habent.

Wikidata ID

Q77260985


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