The Angel Telling Joseph to Flee and the Flight into Egypt

1585

Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Jan Sadeler I

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 15.3 × 20.9 cm (6 × 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.360

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 226, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

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.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2005: Part II, no. 226, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 72.

Inscriptions

lower left, in plate, in image: .1.5.8.5.; lower left center, in plate, in image: .H. Bol. Inu.; lower right center, in plate, in image: A,C, fec.; lower right, in plate, in image: .Sadl. exc.; below image, in plate: Dum glacialis hyems tectis se condere suadet, / Josephum insomnis monet angelus ethere missus, / Ut subito fugiat cum prole & coniuge dirum / Herodem, infantum spirantem pectore cedes. Matt 2

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65506449

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