The Disgrace of the Angels

c. 1700

Richard van Orley

Artist, Flemish, 1663 - 1732

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 85.2 × 61.7 cm (33 9/16 × 24 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1976.79.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 1

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Artwork history & notes

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

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, at center: Ducunt in bonis dies suos, et in puncto ad inferna descendunt. Job. Cap. 21.0; in plate, below image, at left: P. Paulus Rubbens Inuenit et Pinxit; in plate, below image, at right: Ioes Van Orley delineavit et / Rich: Van Orley fecit in aquaforti; verso: at lower left, in brown ink, in later hand: R. van Orley / Orley; at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: 1535; at lower right, in brown ink, in later hand: Richard van Orley; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: Basan / p. 40 / no. 125 [upsidedown]

Markings

none

Watermarks

to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q65576620

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