Rudolph II, 1603

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 33.8 x 25.5 cm (13 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

sheet: 34.2 x 25.5 cm (13 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 323

Accession Number

2000.155.1

Artists / Makers

Aegidius Sadeler II (artist) Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Hans von Aachen (artist after) German, 1552 - 1615

Image Use

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Inscription

around portrait in oval: RVDOLPHVS II. ROMANORVM IPERATOR AVGUVSTVS RES HVNGARIAE, BOHE: ETC.; lower center in plate: S.C.Mtis. pictor Iohan / ab Ach Inventor; across bottom of plate: AVGVSTISSIMO, INVICTISSIMO, SAPIENTISS...AEGIDIVS SADELER.ANNO M.D.C.III

Provenance

(sale, Swann Galleries, New York, 9 November 2000, no. 244); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

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

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Hans von Aachen. Compiled by Joachim Jacoby and edited by Ger Luijten and Robert Zijlma. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1996, no. 93.