Annunciation to the Shepherds, 1599

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 55.7 x 40.1 cm (21 15/16 x 15 13/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 24, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.595

Artists / Makers

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Abraham Bloemaert (artist after) Dutch, 1566 - 1651

Jacques Razet (publisher) Dutch, active 1589 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

below image: Dum vigiles ovium pastores cura teneret, / Angelicas cernunt caeli per inania turmas / Laudibus ob genitum caeles tem extollere Patrem. / Salvatorem orbis, talique applandere cantu: / Summa Deo in superis reddatur gloria: terras / Pax hominesque beet, quibus est syncera voluntas. / Abrahamus Bloemaert Inven. I. Saenredam sculp. / Iac. Razet divulgavit et strenuo humanijsimoque viro D. Petro Mathiae Reipubl. Amsterredam. Scabino meritijsimo amicitiae ergo D. D. ipso Natali Di. Ao. 1599 / SHS; stamped on verso: 248

Provenance

Pierre Mariette [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1788). Nicola Francesco Haym (Lugt 1972) or N. Hillier (Lugt 1974). George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834], Althorp (Lugt 2341a). (Etablissement pour la Diffusion et la Connaissance des Oeuvres d'Art, Monte Carlo (Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London)); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January 11, 1985; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Etablissement pour la Diffusion et la Connaissance des Oeuvres d'Art
Haym, Nicola Francesco
Hillier, N.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mariette, Pierre II
Spencer, George John, 2nd earl Spencer

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. 24, i/ii