The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Schelte Adams Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Associated Names
Schelte Adams Bolswert

Artist, Flemish, 1586 - 1659

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Artist After, Flemish, 1577 - 1640

This is a drawing of fishermen pulling in a large net filled with fish from the sea with two boats in the water. The scene shows individuals exerting effort as they pull the net towards the shore. Seagulls are flying above, and the sea has gentle waves. The sky is partially cloudy with light on the horizon. Various sea creatures are visible on the shore, including a crab and a starfish. The image conveys hard work and a bountiful yield from the sea.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on 3 sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 55.7 x 84.9 cm (21 15/16 x 33 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 62 x 92.3 cm (24 7/16 x 36 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1997.83.1.a-c

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 11, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen; (Artemis Fine Arts Ltd., London); purchased 1997 by 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

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Petrus Paulus Rubens pinxit.; lower right in plate: Schelte à Bolswert sculp. et excud.; lower center in plate: Ait ad Simonem IESVS, Noli timere: ex hoc iam, homines eris capiens. Lucae cap. V. / Cum privilegiis, Regis Christianissimi, Principum Belgarum, et Ordinum Batauiae.; by later hand, lower center to lower right in pen and black ink: 2851 (crossed out); by later hand, lower left in graphite: 18; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 11; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 1[7?]; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 48; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 48; by later hand, lower right verso in red pencil: N48. / N.1136 (crossed out)

Wikidata ID

Q75407812

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