The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist, from The Life of the Virgin
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
1593-1594
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 18 11/16 × 14 in. (47.5 × 35.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil, Jr. 1935 Fund and the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund
2008.72.6
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, dated, and numbered, in block, lower left: HG / 1593. / 6; inscribed, in ink, lower left: PRAECVRSOR DOMINI LACTANTIS AB VBERE MATRIS / BLANDITVR PVUERO, ET COLLVDIT AMICE,; inscribed, in ink, lower right: QVEM PRAECOGNOVIT SALIENS VTERO ABDITVS, HVNC ET / INDICE MONSTRAVIS DIGITO CRESCENTIBVS ANNIS.; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: B.20 Watermark: Encircled Six-Pointed Star
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Scott Milspaugh, Spring 2013
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Yasser Elhariry, Winter 2013
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Newton Center, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2008.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 20; Hirschmann 14
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