Job Tormented by Demons and Abused by His Wife

Lucas Emil Vorsterman

Artist, Flemish, 1595 - 1675

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39.1 x 27 cm (15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.128.46

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 3, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Amherst, MA; gift to NGA, 2004.

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 center in plate: Homo natus de muliere brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miserijs. Qui quasi flos egreditur / et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et nunquam in lodem statu permanet. Iob. 14.; lower right in plate: 9

Wikidata ID

Q75430008

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