The Triumph of Saint Stephen

1559 (published 1638)

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert

Artist, Netherlandish, 1522 - 1590

Joannes Galle

Publisher, Flemish, probably 1600 - 1676

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert after Maerten van Heemskerck

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving and etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.5 × 39 cm (12 × 15 3/8 in.)
    plate: 20.6 × 25.6 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1974.53.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 442, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Craddock and Barnard, London); purchased by NGA, 1974.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Through a Glass Darkly: Allegory & Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2019, no. 17, repro.

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. Maarten van Heemskerck. Parts I and II. Compiled by Ilja M. Veldman and edited by Ger Luijten. Roosendaal: Koninklijke van Poll, 1993.

Inscriptions

upper center, in plate, in image: STEPHANUS; lower right, in plate, numbered in image: 7; below image, in plate: En pietate virum insignem, virtute decorum, / Clementem Stephanum, placidumque;, hilaremque:, benignum, / Munificum supra quam dici possit in omneis: / Nam moriturus constanter precibus, scleratis / Pro hostibus, orabat Dominum vultuque sereno, / Vno in quo fixit sibi Spem, metamque, salutis. (Behold the man conspicuous for piety, noble through virtuousness, the gentle Stephen, more peacable, cheerful, friendly and generous toward s all men than it is possible to say. On the point of death he prayed steadfastly and with a calm countenance for his wicked enemies to the Lord upon whom he had placed his hope, and upon no other, and from whom he awaited his deliverance. [translation from Veldman, Ilja. "Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert and Heemskerck's allegories." In Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch humanism in the sixteenth century, p.68. Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977.])

Markings

none

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65567760

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