Christ and the Woman of Samaria, 1585

Not on View

series Title

Emblemata Evangelica ad XII Signa Coelestia Sive (Scenes from the Life of Christ)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 15.6 × 20.9 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 230, State only

Accession Number

1964.8.364

Artists / Makers

Adriaen Collaert (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1560 - 1618

Hans Bol (artist after) Netherlandish, 1534 - 1593

Jan Sadeler I (publisher) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in plate, in image, on well: .1.5.8.5.; lower left center, in plate, in image: .A.C. fec.; lower right center, in plate, in image: .H. Bol. Inu.; lower right, in plate, in image: .Sadl. fec.; below image, in plate: Floribus en pulchris tellus depicta renidet, / Arboribusque coma viridantes aethere surgent. / Dulciaque amborum pertentant gaudia pectus, / Qui seuit simul, & messem qui colligit amplam. Joha. 4.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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 Hertzberger.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2005: Part II, no. 230, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 76.