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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife


The Ten Commandments, plate 9
Harmen Jansz. Muller (Netherlandish, about 1538/39–1617)
After: Maarten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498–1574)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
about 1566

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 21.3 × 24.9 cm (8 3/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB2770
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné New Hollstein (Muller Dynasty, part1) 17, i / iii
State I/III
DescriptionJoseph Fleeing Potiphar's Wife. Exodus 20:17 and Deuteronomy 5:21.
Signed Signed in plate, at base of seat, lower right: HMVL Fecit
Marks Verso, in graphite: 42; [numbers crossed out]; 2; Joseph & Portiphar's wife.; Hermen Muller [?] IV #2221; MFA Babcock stamp (Lugt 207 and 208), with accession number in ink: 2770
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: M.Heemskerck Inuen. H. Cock excVde; right of lower center: Genesis xxxix cap ; lower right: 9; and in lower margin: NON CONCVPISCES VXOREM PROXIMI TVI DEVT V
ProvenanceJune 12, 1900, bequeathed to the MFA by William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 208), Paris. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)