Magnificat: The Virgin Surrounded by Music-Making Angels

1585

Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Maarten de Vos

Artist After, Netherlandish, 1532 - 1603

Jan Sadeler I, after Maarten de Vos

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the gift of Dewayne and Faith Perry

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.9 × 29.3 cm (8 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)
    mount: 21.6 × 29.9 cm (8 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 304, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2022

  • The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vol. XXI (Johannes Sadeler I). Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 304, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Ioan. Sadler auth. sculps. M de Vos figurant; lower center in plate: COELICOLVM REGI MERITAS DE PROMITE LAVDES / NAMQ PIA DOMINVM VENERARI LAVDE DECORVMES T. Psal. 147; by later hand on verso: from [not deciphered] 12-20-BE

Wikidata ID

Q76561481

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