The Ascension of Christ, c. 1650s

Not on View

Medium

engraving with etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 42 × 32 cm (16 9/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
plate: 41 × 31 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Faya Causey in memory of Philip Conisbee

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein no. 9, State i/iii

Accession Number

2021.76.1

Artists / Makers

Cornelis Visscher (artist) Dutch, c. 1629 - 1658

Veronese (artist after) Venetian, 1528 - 1588

Image Use

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Inscription

in banderole lower center: EGO ET PATER VNV SVMVS; by later hand in graphite: Paul Veronese pt; by later hand lower right below image in graphite: +/; Corneille Visscher fecit; by later hand in graphite, center verso below Mariette's mark: (Lugt #1789); NSMFA; ; 27250; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: The Ascension / Paul Veronese Pt. / C Visscher Sc; / -before letters

Marks and Labels

Pierre Mariette I [1596 - 1657], Paris (Lugt 1786b); dated 1693

Provenance

Pierre Mariette I [1596 - 1657], Paris (Lugt 1786b). (Unrecorded/unknown bookseller, London); Philip Conisbee, Washington, c. 1980; upon his death to his widow, Faya Causey, Washington, 2008; gifted to NGA, 2021

Associated Names

Causey, Faya
Conisbee, Philip
Mariette, Pierre I

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 9, i/iii