Summer
c. 1600
Crispijn van de Passe I
Artist/publisher, Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637
Artist After, Netherlandish, 1532 - 1603
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 18.3 × 21.6 cm (7 3/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 19.9 × 23.1 cm (7 13/16 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2026.43.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein 561, state only [Van de Passe] Hollstein 1421, state only [De Vos]
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Series Title
The Four Seasons
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
purchased by Marjon van der Meulen, 1978; gift to NGA, 2026.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at upper right: AESTAS CERERI S.; in plate, in margin below image: Æstiferi cum Sol premit horrida terga Leonis, /
Virginis & sensim labitur in gremium;
/ Flaua Ceres grauibus compensat messibus æstus: /
Constans à Superis præmia Sudor habet.; in plate, in margin at bottom left: Martin de Voss inuentor; in plate, in margin at bottom right: Crispin de Pass fecti et exc.; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 34[?]