The Fall of the Magician

1565

Pieter van der Heyden

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Hope and Julian Edison

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 21.5 × 28.7 cm (8 7/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.114.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 12, State i/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hope and Julian Edison [1929-2017], St. Louis; gift to the NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 12, state i/v.

Inscriptions

lower right, in image, in plate: Bruegel.invent; lower left, on table, in plate: .PAME. [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, in plate: IDEM IMPETRAVIT A DEO VT MAGVS A DEMONIBVS DISCERPERETVR. (Hence [the saint] obtained from God that the magician should be torn to pieces by demons.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 232.]; on verso, in graphite at lower left: La Chute du Magicien / Bast. 118; on verso, in graphite at lower center: OTTMBBIAB10; on verso, in graphite at lower right: Kdd

Markings

none

Watermarks

dolphin with a flower (similar to Briquet 5845)

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