Suzannah before Daniel, 1606

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series Title

Thronus Iustitiae (Plate 3)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 27.6 x 39.1 cm (10 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.) (trimmed within platemark at bottom)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 52, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.615

Artists / Makers

Willem van Swanenburgh (artist) Dutch, 1580 - 1612

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael (artist after) Dutch, c. 1566 - 1638

Christoffel van Sichem I (publisher) Dutch, 1546 - 1624

Image Use

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Inscription

at bottom left: IWtewael inventor. GS sculpsit. / Par capulare senum precio precibusqué minisqué / struxêre insidias casta Susanna tibi; at bottom centre: Daniel. 13. Cap; at bottom right: Iamqué neci stabat mulier devota futurae, / cum puer in lucem coepta nefanda trahit / CVSichem excudit

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 19, 1978; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
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. 52, only