Christ Crowned with Thorns
Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, Flemish, 1586 - 1659
after Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599 - 1641
about 1635-1640
Engraving on wove paper
Plate: 23 7/16 × 17 3/16 in. (59.5 × 43.7 cm)
Sheet: 27 5/8 × 20 11/16 in. (70.2 × 52.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.994.31
Publisher
Martin van den Enden
Geography
Place Made: Belgium, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Ant. van Dyck pinxit./S. a Bolsert fecit.; lower center: PLECTENTES CORONAM DE SPINIS POSVERVNT SVPER CAPVT EIVS ET ARVDINEM IN DEXTERA EIVS. Matth. 27./Nobilissimo et Integerrimo Viro, D. PAVLO HALMALIO, Senatori Antverpiano, hanc Christi Seruatoris Effigem obseruantiae testandae ergo Martinus Vanden Enden decicabat.; lower right: Martinus vanden Enden/excudit. cum Priuilegio.; inscribed, in graphite, lower margin: Cette gravure sous verre etait expose au cabinet d'estampes rue Vivienne a Paris, comme un chef-d'oeuvre de la gravure, celle ci est de la [-] beaute!; collector's mark, in blue ink, on reverse: Johann Wilhelm Nahl (Lugt 1954) Watermark: indiscerrnible watermark in center.
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 5.
Envisioning Jerusalem: Prints from Durer to Rembrandt, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 9-June 19, 2011.
With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 46, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 28-December 17, 2000.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 5, fig. 5.
Provenance
Johann Wilhelm Nahl (1803-1880)(Lugt 1954); Herbert Mitchell (?); Christie's New York, May 9, 1994, lot 5; Robert Dance; given to present collection, 1994.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein 18
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