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Landscape with the Baptism of Christ, c. 1562

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series Title

Landscapes with Biblical Subjects and Saints

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.6 × 32.7 cm (9 11/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

sheet: 24.9 × 33.8 cm (9 13/16 × 13 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.27.3

Artists / Makers

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder (artist) Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

Lucas van Doetechum (artist) Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Lucas Gassel (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1500 - 1570

Hieronymus Cock (publisher) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Inscription

lower center in plate: H. cock excu..; by later hand, lower verso in graphite: fil. main avec trefle / au dessus in [not deciphered] / Lucas Gassel?; Itax

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (van Doetecum family, Henk Nalis, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 293.

Landscape with the Baptism of Christ, c. 1562