Judith with the Head of Holofernes, c. 1586-1587

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17 x 17 cm (6 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

sheet: 18.2 x 18.3 cm (7 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 336, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.130

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist after) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at top centre: B. Spranger. Inue. / HGoltzius sculp.; around image: Nemo suis nimium confidat viribus, ausis Nemo suis temerè; Docet hoc Holophernis amarus Exitus; en diri caela ceruice Tyranni Te Saluam, Judith memoranda, Bethulia fecit.

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 18, 1974; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Tunick, Inc., David

Bibliography

1921: Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie; no. 317, i/ii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 336, i/ii