The Fall of the Magician, 1565

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 21.5 × 28.7 cm (8 7/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Hope and Julian Edison

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 12, State i/v

Accession Number

2019.114.3

Artists / Makers

Pieter van der Heyden (artist) Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Hieronymus Cock (publisher) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower right, in image, in plate: Bruegel.invent; lower left, on table, in plate: .PAME. [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, in plate: IDEM IMPETRAVIT A DEO VT MAGVS A DEMONIBVS DISCERPERETVR. (Hence [the saint] obtained from God that the magician should be torn to pieces by demons.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 232.]; on verso, in graphite at lower left: La Chute du Magicien / Bast. 118; on verso, in graphite at lower center: OTTMBBIAB10; on verso, in graphite at lower right: Kdd

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Hope and Julian Edison [1929-2017], St. Louis; gift to the NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Edison, Hope and Julian

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 12, state i/v.