The Adoration of the Shepherds

1594

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrik Goltzius (Style of Jacopo Bassano)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 47.4 x 35.2 cm (18 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1984.88.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 10, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

I.I. de Kouriss (Lugt 2722)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 14.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch 17.

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1977

  • Strauss 1977, 319.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 10, ii/ii.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 14.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: HG. / Ao 1594.; lower left, numbered in image, in plate: 3; below image, in plate: Caeli opifex, rerum dominus, Divûm atque hominum Rex / Nascitur en vilis tuguri sub paupere tecto, / Et praesepe tenet, quem non capit arduus aether, / Non mare, non tellus, non vasti machina mundi. / F. Estius. (See, the creator of heaven, the lord of all things, the King of Gods and man, is born under the poor roof of a a miserable hut and He who is greater than the high ether, the sea, the earth, than all the structures of the great universe, lies inside a manager. F.[ranco] Estius.); center verso, in graphite by a later hand: H. GOLTIUS; lower center verso, in graphite by a later hand: B17, / DTMMBAK
[Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 210.]

Wikidata ID

Q74066199

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