The Triumph of Patience

1559 (published 1638)

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert

Artist, Netherlandish, 1522 - 1590

Joannes Galle

Publisher, Flemish, probably 1600 - 1676

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving and etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.6 × 39.1 cm (12 1/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
    plate: 20.9 × 26.2 cm (8 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.53.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 436, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Craddock and Barnard, London); purchased by NGA, 1974.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Through a Glass Darkly: Allegory & Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2019, no. 15, repro.

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, [1949], no. 151, State ii/ii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Maarten van Heemskerck. Parts I and II. Compiled by Ilja M. Veldman and edited by Ger Luijten. Roosendaal: Koninklijke van Poll, 1993.

Inscriptions

lower center, in plate, in image, engraved series title: PATIENTIÆ TRIVMPHUS / ELEGANTISSIMIS IMAGINIBUS EXPRESSUS. (The triump of Patience / Portrayed in most elegant images.); lower left, in plate, in image: MHeemskerck inventor. (MH interlaced); lower right, in plate, in image: Ioan Galle excud.; in upper zone, names of personifications engraved in plate: SPES, DESIDERIUM, PATIENTIA, and FORTUNA (Hope, Desire, Patience, and Fortune); lower right, in plate, numbered in image: 1; below image, in plate: Ac velut angustas rosa candida pullulat inter / Spinas, nec premitur: fiorent & lilia Vere: / Sic iam magnifico vehitur PATIENTIA curru, / Cui FORTVNA potens, fractis concessit honorem / Viribus, & vinclis sequitur constricta, pudore: / Hunc SPES alma trahit, volucri STVDIO comitata. (And just as a white rose burgeons among the dense thickets of thorns and is not shouldered aside by them, and as the lilies bloom in the spring, so Patience now rides forth on a splendid car. Mighty Fortune, whose powers are not broken, has had to yield honor to her and follows, shamed, in chains. Sweet Hope draws the car, accompanied by winged Desire. [translation from Veldman, Ilja. "Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert and Heemskerck's allegories." In Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch humanism in the sixteenth century, p.62. Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977.]); lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Maarten van Heemskerck. 8 plates. Hollstein, VIII, nos. 120-127 II, p.240 also Hollstein, IV, nos 151-158, p.230; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: W53418 / DKM

Markings

none

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65567741

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