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Sibyl Seen from the Back, Looking Downward to the Left

c. 1550

Lambert Suavius

Associated Names

Lambert Suavius

Artist, Flemish, c. 1510 - 1567

The image shows a full-length view of a person from the back, standing with their head turned slightly to the right. The individual has an updo hairstyle with soft curls and twists. They are wearing a long, flowing garment with gathers and pleats around the waist and shoulders, and their left hand is visible holding part of the garment over the right shoulder. One foot is slightly forward. The background has a textured, radiating halo effect surrounding the person in a black and white engraving style.

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Artwork overview

Medium

engraving on laid paper
Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of David A. Krol in Memory of his Brother Anthony J. Krol, Jr.
Dimensions

image: 17.5 × 8.3 cm (6 7/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
sheet: 17.7 × 8.4 cm (6 15/16 × 3 5/16 in.), cut within platemark
Accession Number

2016.105.1
Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 36
Series Title

Sibyls

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Paul Prouté, S.A.

Bibliography

1949

Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vol. XXVIII (Lambert Suavius, compiled by Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer and George S. Keyes). Blaricum: Van Gendt B.V., 1991; no. 36.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 555 - 5 / xvi siecle

Wikidata ID

Q77112619

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