Inscription
in image, in oval frame around portrait: IOANNES BOLLIVS MECHLINENSI PICTOR. AET. LVIII. Ao DD. D. XCIII; in image, in cartouche below portrait: Caelatam Vitrici effigiem Francise tuêre, / Virtutem spectato magis, vitamqué probatam, Pictricem admirâre manum, qua Florida Tempe, / Et nemus Alcinoi penicillo aequauit amaenum / Dedicat nani grato tibi pectore Goltzius, at tu / Pignus amicitiae laeta cupe mente manuque; in image, at bottom left: HG.
Provenance
(Paul McCarron, New York); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased August 24, 1989; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Exhibition History
- 2013
- Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.
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. 177, 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. 209, i, i/ii