Justus Lipsius, 1587

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14 x 9.6 cm (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 234

Accession Number

2000.30.2

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: HG (in monogram) / Fe.; across top of plate: MORIBUS ANTIQUIS AETAT. 40. Ao 1587.; by 17th century hand, across bottom in brown ink: Dicta est Pandore cui tot data dona Deorum, / Sic ego Pandorum nomino Lipsiadem / Paedarij (She, to whom the gods have given so many gifts, is called Pandora / Hence, I call Lipsius, Pandorus / Your little slave)

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Exhibition History

2000: Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000, brochure checklist no. 41.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1921: Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 234.