Landscape with Large Roman Ruins

c. 1638

Schelte Adams Bolswert

Artist, Flemish, 1586 - 1659

Schelte Adams Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.5 x 45.2 cm (13 9/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.6 x 47.7 cm (14 7/16 x 18 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.182.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 306, State iv/v


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1873

  • Schneevoogt, C. G. Voorhelm. Catalogue des Estampes gravées d'après P. P. Rubens. Haarlem: Les Héritiers Loosjes, 1873.

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: S. à Bolswert sculpsit.; lower center in plate: Pet. Paul Rubbens pinxit Romae.; lower right in plate: Fillis Hendricx excudit / Antwerpiae

Wikidata ID

Q76357319


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