Anna Maria van Schurman, after 1657

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.3 x 24 cm (11 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 153 ii/iii

Accession Number

2011.139.43

Artists / Makers

Cornelis van Dalen the Younger (artist) Dutch, 1638 - 1664

Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (artist after) English, 1593 - 1661

Clement de Jonghe (publisher) Dutch, c. 1624 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

on oval frame, in plate: ANNA MARIA A SCHURMAN.; lower center in plate (on cartellino): Tanta fides caelo, tanta est fiducia, divae / Hoccine Schurmannae vultus in aere micet?/ Disce gravis, sculptor, quae sit vesania caepti: / Haec, ais, haec aevi Sideris umbra tui est?/ Tun' similem praestes aetas cui nulla secundam / Edidit, et non est ulla datura parem? / CONSTANTER; botton margin in plate: Cornelius Ioson van Ceulen Pinxit Clemendt de Ionghe excudebat C. v. Dalen Iunior sculpsit; by later hand, lower left on mount, in graphite: Cornelis van Dalen the younger. Amsterdam 1638-1664 Anna Maria van Schurman, painter + poetess, / Hollstein V, p. 120. 153 ii/iii; by later hand, upper right verso, in graphite: 3,10; by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: C'9 / 10/6 / 4938; by later hand, upper right mount verso, in graphite: 63, 281; by later hand, lower center mount verso, in graphite: 2/479

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge, [1949], vol. 5, no. 153, ii/iii