Job Tormented by Demons and Abused by His Wife

Lucas Emil Vorsterman after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Associated Names
Lucas Emil Vorsterman

Artist, Flemish, 1595 - 1675

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Artist After, Flemish, 1577 - 1640

This is a print of a scene featuring a man surrounded by three demonic creatures. The creatures appear to be lifting him upwards, and his head is thrown back, his arms raised to either side. The demons have pointed ears, horns, sharp teeth, and bat-like wings. One holds a snake while another appears to hold a fiery whip. The central man is nude except for a cloth that is wrapped around his waist, and he is surrounded by rubble, including broken beams and shattered stones. On the right, a woman stands beside the man, looking towards him. She has wrinkled skin and a cloth covering her head. Below the print are two lines of text.

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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 Number

    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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