Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1588-1629

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Medium

engraving mounted on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 20.3 × 27.5 cm (8 × 10 13/16 in.)
mount: 23 × 27.9 cm (9 1/16 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Stephen and Claudine Ostrow

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 389

Accession Number

2019.184.1

Artists / Makers

Aegidius Sadeler II (artist) Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Jacopo Ligozzi (artist after) Italian, 1547 - 1627

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Inscription

recto: on mount, at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: Sadeler - after Ligozzi; verso: at upper right, in graphite, in later hand: 63-335; at bottom, in blue ink, in later hand: Aegidi Sadeler (?) / Dante + Virgil entering hell; After Jacopo Ligozzi 1547-1626 / of his three drawings of the Divine Comedy / at Christ Church, Oxford / also pl. 44 in Triumph of Mannerism / + Vo[?] II, p. 422

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Stephen and Claudine Ostrow, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Ostrow, Stephen Dr. and Mrs.

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 Hertzberger, no. 389 CHECK