The Good Shepherd
1585
Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618
Publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to platemark): 15 × 20.8 cm (5 7/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1964.8.366
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 232, 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
Exhibition History
2009
Scripture for the Eyes: Biblical Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2009-2010. no. 17a.
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. 232, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 78.
Inscriptions
lower left center, in plate, in image: .A.C. fec.; lower center, in plate, in image: .H. Bol. Inu.; lower right center, in plate, in image: .Sadl. exc.; lower right, in plate, in image: .1.5.8.5.; below image, in plate: Qui pecudes tenera debebat pascere in herba, / Tacte frui tantum, & vellus deglubere curarit. / At bonus educit pastor, pecudes que reducit. Ezeh. 34. / Quique alia irrepunt, fures sunt atque latrones. Joha. 10.
Markings
none
Wikidata ID
Q65506458