The Triumph of Job, 1559

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with traces of chalk and incising throughout on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 18.2 x 26.3 cm (7 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.47.3

Artists / Makers

Maerten van Heemskerck (artist) Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in brown ink: M va Heemskerck / 1559. Inventor

Provenance

Freiherr Richard von Kühlmann [1873-1948]; Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976]; by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George Baer; designated purchase by NGA with funds contributed by Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1990.

Associated Names

Baer, Curtis O.
Baer, George M., Dr. and Mrs.
Kühlmann, Richard von

Exhibition History

1955: Symposium of the Graphic Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1955.

1958: Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1958, no. 15 (cat. by Agnes Mongan)

1985: Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, The Curtis O. Baer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and tour, 1985-1987, no. 27 (cat. by Eric M. Zafran).

1991: Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pp. 24-25.

2002: The Sweet Uses of Adversity, Images of the Biblical Job. The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, 2002, 57, no. 11, and 58, under no. 12.

Bibliography

1961: Hoetink, H.R. "Heemskerck en het zestiende eeuwse spiritualisme," Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 12, no. 1 (1961): 15.

1977: Oberhuber, Konrad, ed. Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1977: 124.

1977: Veldman, Ilja M. Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch Humanism in the Sixteenth Century. Maarssen, 1977: 62.

1983: Robinson, William, in Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, exh. cat. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1983: 173.