The Triumph of Job

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: 30.5 × 38.9 cm (12 × 15 5/16 in.)
    plate: 20.7 × 25.7 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.53.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 440, 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. 16, 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.

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

upper center, in plate, in image: IOB.; lower right, in plate, numbered in image: 5; below image, in plate: Omnibus amissis, post mille pericula, rebus: / Post tot difficiles casus, varios cruciatus, / JOB quibus infesto tentatus Dæmone, Amicis, / Coniuge fallaci, passus tamen est fide cucta / Constanter, firmusque, nimis testudinis instar, / Mansit, quam poterit tectam con fringere nemo. (When Job had lost all his possessions after trial without number, after so many difficulties and so many torments of every kind by which he was tested by the hostile devil, and by his friends and his deceitful wife, his faith yet enabled him to endure all those trials steadfastly, and he remained as strong as a tortoise, whose shell no one can break. [translation from Veldman, Ilja. "Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert and Heemskerck's allegories." In Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch humanism in the sixteenth century, p.66. Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977.])

Markings

none

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65567757

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