The Transport of the Holy House of Loreto, c. 1650

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.1 × 38.7 cm (9 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.)

sheet: 25.6 × 39.2 cm (10 1/16 × 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein undesc.

Accession Number

2016.43.3

Artists / Makers

Joseph Heintz the younger (artist) Swiss, c. 1600 - 1678

Image Use

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Inscription

below image in plate: 'HISTORIA MARAVIGLIOSA DELLA DIVINA TRASLATIONE DELLA CASA DIR LORETO PORTATA DAGLI ANGELI DALL ORIENTE IN OCCIDENTE P. VIAGGI MARITIMI ET TERI / Dedicata / All'Illmo et Ecc Sigr. Giacomo / Correr Pror di S. Marco; lower left below image in plate: A. Terra di Tersatt, in Schiauonia, do / ue la Santa Casa di Loreto d'Oriente, Poso la prima uolta / B. Selua infestrata... / hebbe il Mare / Adriatico.; lower left in plate: No. 23; lower right in plate: C. Monte uicino all a Selua, sopra di cui la Santa Casa, trasportata dal Bosco... / ... hora Loreto, doue ultimamente fu portata, et stabilita la Santa / Casa; lower center below image in plate: Illmo: et ecco. Sigr. / Vinto finalmente il ristretto del io Qua / ni, ueste la luce del Mondo, per meritare... / Seruit Duotisso. umo. et Obligo. / Gioseffe ens d'Augusta, Pittore; by later hand, across bottom edge of page in pen and ink: Ene oder Enzo Joseph, Mahler zu Venedig, wo er sich ebbe durch phantastiche Bilder [not deciphered] maehlte Nagler N. 138; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: FHGO/CBMB; by later hand, lower verso in pen and ink: [not deciphered]

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

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 Hertzberge: undesc