The Adoration of the Magi, 1620

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 58.1 x 44.1 cm (22 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

sheet: 58.2 x 44.3 cm (22 15/16 x 17 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 8

Accession Number

2008.91.7

Artists / Makers

Lucas Emil Vorsterman (artist) Flemish, 1595 - 1675

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Lucas Emil Vorsterman (publisher) Flemish, 1595 - 1675

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center: SERENISSIMO ET POTENTISSIMO ALBERT0 AVSTR. ARCHID. BVRG. ET BELGARVM CLEMENTISSIMO DNO ARTIS ET DEVOTIONIS SVAE SPECIMEN, PETRVS PAVLVS RVBENS, EX FIDO CVLTV HVMILITER DEICAT CONSECRATQVE; lower left: P. P. Rubens pinxit.; lower center: Cum privilegijs Regis Christianissimi, principum Belgarum, & Ordinum Batauiae; lower right: Lucas Vorsterman sculp et excud. Ano. 1620

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam, no. 8