Grotesque Heads

1638

Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Artist, Dutch, 1598 - 1657

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.2 × 11.6 cm (3 1/4 × 4 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.5 × 12.1 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.67.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 24, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567); (Lucien Goldschmidt, New York); purchased by NGA, 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1980-1981, no. 88, repro.

1984

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

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 Hertzberge

1981

  • Ackley, Clifford S. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1981:, 88.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2000, "De Gheyn III," no. 24, state only.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: 1638. / DGheyn

Markings

recto: none; verso: D'Arenberg Collection (Lugt 567)

Wikidata ID

Q65571035

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