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Saint Luke Painting the Virgin
1614
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.1 x 22.4 cm (11 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 28 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
Image: 27.3 x 20.6 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 28 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
Image: 27.3 x 20.6 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Bradford and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Accession Number2006.1460
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionStudy piece: late impression with variant inscription -- compare to fine impression of same subject (acc. no. 2006.1459)
Signed
Inscribed in plate, lower right: Adrian. Collaert Sculp.
Marks
Verso, collector's mark in purple, lower right: [Lugt 3751, Albert van Loock]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in cartouches upper left: WT IONSTEN; and upper right: VERSAEMPT; dated in small plaques above niches, behind and above the Virgin and Child: Anno; behind and above Saint Luke: 1614; below the Virgin, lower left: Seb. Vrancs inuent.; below St. Luke, lower right: Adrian. Collaert Sculp.; in the cartouche within the engraved frame, lower left to right: SINT' LVCAS niet alleen het leuen heest beschreuen,/Van die de Zone Godts ons heest gebaert al - hier:/Maer hy heest haer oock selff gheschildert naer het leuen,/Daerom foo eeren hem die van de VIOLIER./Dierit uwen AL.
ProvenanceAlbert van Loock (dealer) , Brussels (b. 1917 - d. 2011?; Lugt 3751). Hill-Stone (dealer), New York; sold by Hill-Stone to Robert and Barbara Wheaton, Concord, MA; September 20, 2006, gift of Robert (d. 2010) and Barbara Wheaton to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 20, 2006)