The Seven Virtues, 1588

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series Title

Mythological and Allegorical Subjects (Plate 5)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.9 x 20.9 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 30.8 x 21.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 352, State i/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.565

Artists / Makers

Jacob Matham (artist) Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: 7 (altered into 8 with pen and brown ink); in image, at bottom centre: HG. Inuent.; below image: Sola beat virtus, nec opes, nec sceptra iuuabunt, / Haec ubi defuerit vilia cuncta puta. / Cuius praecipuas una sub imagine partes / Caelator docta sedulus arte dedit.

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 5, 1990; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
McCarron, Paul

Exhibition History

2013: Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 241, i/iii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 352, i/iii (as attributed to Matham)