Cleopatra, c.1598

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 38.3 x 25.5 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

sheet: 40.6 x 28 cm (16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 80, State ii/iv

Accession Number

2012.92.576

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Adriaen de Vries (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1556 - 1626

Image Use

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Inscription

below image, at centre: Prodiga luxuries rerum, vetitique HYMENAEI, / Haec scelerum tandem praemia digna ferunt.; below image, at right: Adrianus de Vries inuent. / Joan Muller sculp.

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 23, 1985; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Prouté, S.A., 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. 45, only

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. 80, ii/iv