The Fountain and the Column of Trajan in Rome, 1656

Not on View

Medium

etching with punch engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 26 × 20.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 10, State only

Accession Number

1974.55.12

Artists / Makers

Jan Lutma II (artist) Dutch, 1624 - 1689

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at upper left: Joannes Lutma Junior / fecit 1656; in plate, on top of column at left: PONT MAX; in plate, at lower left: [illegible]; verso: in graphite, at lower right: Rovinski Eleves74.5 (as from Nagler) / WII 72.7 (as Piazza Navona) / Hol XI 115.10 (reproduced) after / Bernini / 1502 2

Marks and Labels

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Lugt 5212), annotated in center, in graphite: 6/15/72 / JIM; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Lugt 1943), annotated below, in graphite: 51.501.6106

Provenance

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Lugt 1943 and Lugt 5212), deaccessioned 1972

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

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