Fortune Distributing her Gifts, 1590

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 50.6 × 91.1 cm (19 15/16 × 35 7/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 33, State iii/v

Accession Number

2012.92.572

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (artist after) Dutch, 1562 - 1638

Herman Jansz Muller (publisher) Netherlandish, c. 1540 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at left: Cornelius Corneliades Harlemen / inuenit et pinxit; in image, at right: Johannes Mullerus Amsterod: sculpsit.; below image: Me rerum Dominam celebrant, Divanque potentem / Mortales faciunt, et super astra locant. / Munifica dicor nunc hos extollere dextra, / Nunc illos varijs exagitare malis. / Praecipiti videor, rapidaeque insistere sphaerae, / Quòd mihi non constem lubrica, simque vaga. / Praevelant oculos, rectum discernere bruta / Quod nequeam: justis dura, benigna malis. / Occiput est calvum, propendent fronte capilli, / Obvia quòd possim, non fugitiva, capi. / At cum provideat divina potentia rebus, / Nomen inane mihi, non mihi numen adest.; below image, at right: Harman Muller excud:; in image, at top left: Prudentissimis Reip. Harlemensis Moderatoribus, / Adraino Berckenrodio, Guilielmo Dei manno, / Thoma Thomae f., et Gerardo Guilielmio, Dominis / suis plurimum observandis, Cornelius Corneliades / Pictor, gratus ciuis dedicabat, An. M. D. XC.

Provenance

Horace Walpole; his sale, June 13, 1842, lot 1216.[1] (Christie's London, June 29, 1978, lot 16); (via P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] The Christie's sale catalogue in which the present print appears notes that the mannerist prints in the sale came from a dissembled portfolio once belonging to Walpole.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, Horace

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. 71, ii/iv

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 33, iii/v