Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst (Introduction to the Noble School of Painting)
1678
Artist/author, Dutch, 1627 - 1678
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Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with letterpress text and 20 etchings and engravings on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 21.3 × 17.1 × 3.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
page size: 20.4 × 15.9 cm (8 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1991.21.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 31, State ii/ii (of the Self-Portrait)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Emil Offenbacher, New York; purchased 1978 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow; gift 1991 to NGA.
Associated Names
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
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.78.
Inscriptions
by later hand in blue ink on front pastedown at upper right: 78-51-9; by later hand in graphite on front pastedown at center: coll / portrait of Van Hoogstraten present - / -not always found in all copies / p13 - mention of Rembrandt; by later hand in graphite on back pastedown: WR 6310
Markings
none