Democritus in Meditation

c. 1670

Gabriel Ehinger

Artist, German, 1652 - 1736

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 42.7 × 31.6 cm (16 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 44.4 × 33.2 cm (17 1/2 × 13 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.133.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock, Vienna (Lugt 345). C. G. Boerner, New York; purchased 2019 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: no. 10

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas

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