Henoch and His Family at a Meal, 1586

Not on View

series Title

The Story of the Family of Seth

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.5 × 27.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

sheet: 20.9 × 27.2 cm (8 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ramon Osuna

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 33

Accession Number

2018.209.3

Artists / Makers

Jan Sadeler I (artist/publisher) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Maarten de Vos (artist after) Netherlandish, 1532 - 1603

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in image: V; lower left in image: I Sadl: auct et sculpt ex; lower right in image: Gene: 5; M. de vos figur:; lower center in image: Septima stirpis Ade poles sanctusque propheta / Exstitit, ante suum Domino gratissima raptum. / Plus tria bis numerans Henoch quinquennia vitae / Mathusalam genuit sinceri pignus amoris

Provenance

Auguste Riedinger [second half of the 19th century], Augsburg (Lugt 167). Ramon Osuna, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Osuna Galleries
Riedinger, Auguste

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 Hertzberge: no 33