Alexander the Great Seated in Justice

1606

Willem Swanenburgh, after Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

Associated Names
Willem van Swanenburgh

Artist, Dutch, 1580 - 1612

Christoffel van Sichem I

Publisher, Dutch, 1546 - 1624

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

Artist After, Dutch, c. 1566 - 1638

The image shows a group scene with multiple full-bodied figures arranged around a central seated figure on a raised platform with a decorative curtain backdrop. The central figure is a bearded, bare-chested man holding a staff. Other figures are engaged in conversation or debate, dressed in classical tunics and robes with various hats. Columns and steps are in the background, along with a natural landscape with trees and mountains in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 29.9 x 37 cm (11 3/4 x 14 9/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.610

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 59, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 18, 1974; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

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. 59, only

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: IWtewael inuent. / G. Swaneb. sculp. 1606; in image, at right: CVSichem editor: et excud:; below image: Regis Alexandri non est laus clarior ulla / Quam quod juris erat justitiaeque tenax. / Nil pruis edixit quam partes audiit ambas, / Integer ut dempto jure favore daret. / Proebuit ergo unam duntaxat agentibus aurem, / Altera sollicitis mansit operta reis. / Quilquis in auditum damnat, vel crimine solvit, / Aequa licet statuat non tamen aquus erit; below image, at left: X

Wikidata ID

Q76557324

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