The Triumph of Job

1559

Maerten van Heemskerck

Artist, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Freiherr Richard von Kühlmann [1873-1948]; Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976]; by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George Baer; designated purchase by NGA with funds contributed by Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Symposium of the Graphic Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1955.

1958

  • Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1958, no. 15 (cat. by Agnes Mongan)

1985

  • Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, The Curtis O. Baer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and tour, 1985-1987, no. 27 (cat. by Eric M. Zafran).

1991

  • Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pp. 24-25.

2002

  • The Sweet Uses of Adversity, Images of the Biblical Job. The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, 2002, 57, no. 11, and 58, under no. 12.

Bibliography

1961

  • Hoetink, H.R. "Heemskerck en het zestiende eeuwse spiritualisme," Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 12, no. 1 (1961): 15.

1977

  • Oberhuber, Konrad, ed. Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1977: 124.

  • Veldman, Ilja M. Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch Humanism in the Sixteenth Century. Maarssen, 1977: 62.

1983

  • Robinson, William, in Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, exh. cat. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1983: 173.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: M va Heemskerck / 1559. Inventor

Wikidata ID

Q64594610

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