Tobias Taking Leave of his Parents

c. 1565

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder

Artist, Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

Lucas van Doetechum

Artist, Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Gerard de Jode

Publisher, Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.5 × 32 cm (9 1/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.5 × 33.8 cm (10 1/16 × 13 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1975.65.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum family), no. 424, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel (Lugt 222b and Lugt 5902); (Kennedy Galleries, New Yok); purchased 1975 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1951: III (Hans Bol): no. 208.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Van Doetecum Family, Henk Nalis, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998: Part II, no. 424, i/ii; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 31, i/ii; (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2018: Part I, no. 178, i/ii.

Inscriptions

in margin below image, in plate: Iunior Tobias Raphaele angelo comite Ragam Medi[a]e proficitur; in margin below image, at right, in plate: 2; verso, vertically at upper right, in graphite by a later hand: Dublette, verglichen P-B; verso, lower left, vertically, in graphite by a later hand: Bol, Hans

Wikidata ID

Q65568750


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