Belshazzar's Feast, c. 1598

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.9 x 40.3 cm (14 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

sheet: 36.2 x 41.2 cm (14 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1994.60.46

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Herman Jansz Muller (publisher) Netherlandish, c. 1540 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Joannes Muller: / fecit.; lower right in plate: Harman Muller / excudebat.; across bottom in plate: Cernite Chaldaei viuâ sub imagine Regis, / Horresco referens, diuini numinis iram. / Scilicèt hac decuit plecti ratione, superbâ, / Numine contempto, linguâ qui Idola crepabat. / Qui simili peccare modo praesumitis, isto / Discite ab exemplo, similis nè paena sequatur.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 9117; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 46 + [5?]0; by later hand, left center verso in graphite: [U?} Dav[?]y

Provenance

P. Gervaise (died 1860), Paris (Lugt 1078); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.
Gervaise, P.

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 13.

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

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999, no. 1, state ii/iii.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 13.