A Rocky Landscape with the Temptation of Christ, 1620s(?)

Not on View

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.2 × 18.7 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 25.9 × 19.2 cm (10 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 1, i/ii (as after Vrancx)

Accession Number

2013.74.1

Artists / Makers

Sebastian Vrancx (artist) Flemish, 1573 - 1647

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in margin below image: Spiritus in sylvas desertaque dux it Iesum / Ut grave sentiret tentamen ab hoste maligno. / Commonstrat Satanas et regna potentia mundi / Et quoscunq[ue] tenet pulcherrimus orbis honores.; lower right, in margin below image: S. Vranx. In

Marks and Labels

lower right, stamped in black ink: Friedrich Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (Lugt 971)

Provenance

Friedrich August von Sachsen II [1696 - 1763]; (E. H. Ariëns Kappers, Amsterdam); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Antiquariaat E.H. Ariëns Kappers
Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, Friedrich

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, no. 1, i/ii (as after Vrancx)