Charity with Faith and Hope, c. 1593

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 26 × 19.2 cm (10 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.)

sheet: 34 × 25.1 cm (13 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 3, State iii/iii

Accession Number

2020.40.1

Artists / Makers

Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck (artist) Dutch, 1566 - before 1612

Claes Jansz Visscher (publisher) Dutch, 1586/1587 - 1652

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Inscription

lower center, within image, in plate: CIVisscher excu.; lower right, within image, in plate: G.P. Fecit; in margin below image, in plate: Virtus quidem magna est FIDES, / Nec SPES Fide Virtus minor: / Sed, teste Christi Apostolo, / Est maxima harum CHARITAS.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Art-Torg, Prague, 18 February 2017, no. 126); (Bassenge, Berlin, sale #111, 30 May 2018, no. 5164); (Jan Johnson, Montreal);

Associated Names

Johnson, Jan

Exhibition History

2022: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 3, iii/iii.