Prudence, c.1597

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 36.4 x 20.4 cm (14 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

sheet: 36.8 x 20.9 cm (14 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 85, State ii/iv

Accession Number

2012.92.580

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: Queis Natura dedit forman tinctosque capillos, / Virtute hae tingant mentem animumque suum; 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. 70, ii/iii

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. 85, ii/iv