Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, 1580s?

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20 × 12.6 cm (7 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 29.2 × 22 cm (11 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 65

Accession Number

2017.155.1

Artists / Makers

Raphael Sadeler I (artist) Flemish, 1560/1561 - 1628 or 1632

Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist after) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in image: B. Spranger invent. R. Sadeler fec.; lower center in plate: An pueri, an magnae genitricis imagine vultum / Aspiciam LVCA; reddis utrumque benè / Bluandulus est natus bland est virguncula mater / Artificum destrae quodque imentur habent.

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 65