The Fall of Man, 1606

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.5 x 38.1 cm (11 1/4 x 15 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1, State i/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.562

Artists / Makers

Jacob Matham (artist) Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. M. / 1606; in image, at bottom centre: HGoltzius Inuentor; in image, at bottom right: I. Maetham sculptor et excud.

Provenance

(Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 10, 1973, lot 106); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 1, i/ii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Jacob Matham, Lena Widerkehr, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1, i/iii