Saint Peter, 1589

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.4 x 21 cm (11 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 30.5 x 21.1 cm (12 x 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, 460, State i/ii

Accession Number

2000.54.2

Artists / Makers

Jacques de Gheyn II (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrick Goltzius (publisher) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: HGoltzius inve. / Ao 89; across bottom in plate: Te velut in petra fundata Ecclesia Christi est, / Et celi potis es tu referare seras. / Nec stygie eripient unquam tibi Petre phalanges / Claues, ille femel quas Deus ipse dedit. / F. Estius.
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Provenance

(Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

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

1978: The Illustrated Bartsch. New York, 1978 - .

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2012; no. 460, i/ii.