Three Whooper Swans

c. 1600

Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G24

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.1 x 18.9 cm (5 3/16 x 7 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.32.1.o

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 1417, State i/ii

  • Volume Title

    Avium Vivae Icones (Living images of birds)

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Peacock and Stork

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Antiquariaat Junk B.V., Amsterdam; purchased 1993 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1998

  • A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 75.

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

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1417, state i/ii.

Inscriptions

center in plate: Cygnus; lower left in plate: Adrian. Collaert excud.; lower left in plate: 14.

Watermarks

IP

Wikidata ID

Q75122414

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