Fall of the Damned, 1642

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 71 × 54.6 cm (27 15/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

sheet: 74.5 × 56.6 cm (29 5/16 × 22 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 2, State i/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.609

Artists / Makers

Jonas Suyderhoff (artist) Dutch, c. 1613 - 1686

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Image Use

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Inscription

below image: Superbiae ergò depulsi et caelis Luciferi, Vindicem Michaelem, Constantino Hugens, Equiti Toparchae Zuijlechemij, Principis Auriaci Senatori, et / à secretis, illustrium ingeniorum Patrono, Musarum Apollini Dedicat. Seseque ejus clarissimo Nomini L. M. Q. devovet Petrus Soutman. Cum Priuil.; below image, at left: P. Paul Rubens Pinxit; below image, at right: I. Suyderhoef sculp. Ao. 1642.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 16, 1977; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Tunick, Inc., David

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. 2, i/iii