The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1621

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 55.7 × 43 cm (21 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

sheet: 61.9 × 47.5 cm (24 3/8 × 18 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 92, State i/iii

Accession Number

1978.29.5

Artists / Makers

Lucas Emil Vorsterman (artist) Flemish, 1595 - 1675

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, along bottom: PHILIPPO IIII. HISPANIARVM REGI CATHOLICO INDIARVM MONARCHAE Humill. Lucas Vorsterman Sculptor D. D. / Cum priuilegys Regis Christianissimi, Principum Belgarum et Ord. Bataviae. Ao. 1621; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: 153 dupe

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1854: Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels

1884: Dutuit (1884-85), vol.4, p.25, 1, i/ii.

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