St. Mary Magdalen Penitent, 1585

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29 × 20 cm (11 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.) (trimmed)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 50, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.555

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Hendrick Goltzius (publisher) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

lettered in image, at lower left: HGoltzius inuen. et sculptor / excudebat; lettered in image, at lower right: Ao 1585; lettered in lower margin: Dum sua perpetuo deplorat crimina fletu, Grata pio meruit Magdalis esse Deo.; on verso, in graphite: H, 53 S' Marie Madeleine Penitente, 1er etat/II B58 / DR. YRML-BKH (?)

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 19, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Tunick, Inc., David

Bibliography

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: no. 53, i/ii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 50, i/ii