The Holy Family

1585

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 16.7 x 11.8 cm (6 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.45.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 337, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1989

  • Sotheby's, THE PRINTS OF H. GOLTZIUS, London: 6/27/89, no.69.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 337, i/iii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: B.Spranger Invent..; lower right in plate: HGoltzius Scup.. et excu.. Ao 1585.; across bottom in plate: Infans ille pice qui pendet ab ubere Matris, / Est Deus, in terras ce lso demissus olympo.; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite, : Heilige Familie / B 274 / Hirschmann 318 I; lower left verso: B 274

Wikidata ID

Q74882774

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