The Golden Age, 1644

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut to platemark): 44.2 x 69.1 cm (17 3/8 x 27 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Roethlisberger 1993, no. 70, copy 3

Accession Number

2002.77.1

Artists / Makers

Netherlandish 17th Century (artist)

Abraham Bloemaert (artist after) Dutch, 1566 - 1651

Nicolaes de Bruyn (artist after) Flemish, 1565/1571 - 1656

Jean Le Blond I (publisher) French, 1590/1594 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: le Blond exc.; lower right in cartouche: Auria Saturno Butilabant Secula Rege / Nectaris et passim flumina lactis Erant / Spontedecus florum tellus inculta ferebat / Bacchiq[ue] et Cereris Sponte ferebat opes. / 1644; lower left, in brown ink by a later hand: 46

Provenance

(William H. Schab Master Prints and Drawings Inc., New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Bibliography

1993: Roethlisberger, Marcel G. Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints. 2 vols. Doornspijk, 1993.

2014: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Nicolaes de Bruyn. Compiled by Lorena A. Baines and edited by Nadine M. Orenstein. Ouderkerk aan den Ijssell: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2014, no. 215, copy b.