The Rape of a Sabine Woman (View from Behind), c.1598

Not on View

series Title

The Rape of a Sabine Woman (Plate 1)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 42.2 × 28.5 cm (16 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

sheet: 44.8 × 30.6 cm (17 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 77, State v/vi

Accession Number

2012.92.582

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

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

Dancker Danckerts (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom centre: 1.; below image, at centre: En tibi Romanae sobolis furtiua propago, / Quae creuit raptu, virgo Sabina, tuo; below image, at left: Has effigies per Adrianum de Vries / Haghien è caerâ formatas, Joan: / Mullerus aeri incîdit.; below image, at right: Hatmannus Mullerus / excudebat Amsterodamj. / Cornelus Danckerts Excud. / Dancker Danckerts Excud; below image, in pen and brown ink, by later hand: 4 st.

Provenance

(Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 28, 1984; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

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. 65, iv/vii

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. 77, v/vi