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Gabriel Ehinger, after Johann Heinrich Schönfeld

Democritus in Meditation, c. 1670

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 42.7 × 31.6 cm (16 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.)

sheet: 44.4 × 33.2 cm (17 1/2 × 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 10

Accession Number

2019.133.1

Artists / Makers

Gabriel Ehinger (artist) German, 1652 - 1736

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (artist after) German, 1609 - c. 1682

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas

Provenance

Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock, Vienna (Lugt 345). C. G. Boerner, New York; purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868: no. 10

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