Satan Challenges God to Remove his Protection from Job, 1562

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on laid paper, incised for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 19.2 x 24.8 cm (7 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
mount: 28.5 x 37.8 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.23

Artists / Makers

Maerten van Heemskerck (artist) Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

Image Use

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Inscription

signed, dated, and numbered by artist, on three clouds at lower right in pen and brown ink: 1562 / 4 / M. Heemskerck / inventor; by unknown hand [old Dutch script], across middle verso in graphite: Historie van Job/no 30--van Heemskercke

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi, London, by 1958); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1958; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

1975: Drawing: Techniques and Types. The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1975, no. A 14.

1991: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 73 (cat. by Frederick A. den Broeder).

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 28-29, no. 3 (entry by Rozemarijn Landsman).

2016: Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1993: Veldman, Ilja M., compiler. The New Hollstein. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts 1450-1700. Maarten van Heemskerck. Edited by Ger Luitjen. 2 parts. Roosendaal, 1993-1994: pt. 1, 140 (under no. 164).

1994: Harris, Ann Sutherland. Review of Frederick A. den Broeder. Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. Master Drawings 32, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 68.