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The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
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January
The Twelve Months of the Solar Year
Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, about 1560–1618)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)
After: Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Published by: Joannes Galle (Netherlandish, 1600–1676)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 21 x 26.3 cm (8 1/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 33.6 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 33.6 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number65.581
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. IV) 559
State
II
Signed
Signed in plate, lower left: Iodocus de Momper inuent.; left of lower center: Adrian. Collaert Sculpt.; lower right: Ioan. Galle excud.
Marks
Watermark (not identified); MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 65.584; oval tourquise stamp, filled in with blue ink, probably Lugt 4073 (mark not identified)
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper left of center: AQVARIVS.; in lower margin, lower center: IANVARIVS.; lower left: Iani bifrontis primo nunc ordine mensi/Conueniunt epulæ, pocula, abolla, focus,; lower right: Lætiqe in Scenâ quos exhibet his trio ludi:/Vrniger hibernas dum Puer edit aquas.
Provenance1965, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, to the MFA for £350 [see note]. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 65.580-65.592 were purchased for this amount.