Prodigal Son (left plate only) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R1944
People: Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
After Karel van Mander, Netherlandish (Meulebeke, Belgium 1548 - 1606 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title: Prodigal Son (left plate only)
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1596
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture: Dutch
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/244900

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

plate: 42 × 33 cm (16 9/16 × 13 in.)
sheet: 45.2 × 35.8 cm (17 13/16 × 14 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: Presumably graphite, but not visible to me. It may have been erased from the margin.: JWR[very faint]: Karl Van Mander inv James de Gheyn sc
inscription: engraved on a stone in the foreground of the image, to left of center. See New Hollstein 34 for the complete text.: Illustrissimo & Generoso Comiti a Solmes, ... hoc opus a Kaerlo de Mandere Inventu / Jacobus de Geyn Sculptor / dedicauit / Anno S . M D XCVI
label: Engarved in the lower right corner of the image foreground: KM[monogram]andere inuen, Iacobus de geyne sculptor.
inscription: Engraved in the lower margin, at left and at right: Disce voluptati comes vt metanœa, merasq / Sub blando Meretrix nectat amore tricat; // Libertas abeat quo tam speciosa benigni / Quæ patris excusio quæritur Imperio.
collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with number added in graphite:
JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 1944 [number on a dotted line] [Lugt 2130]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: i/iv
Standard Reference Number: New Hollstein 34, plate 1; H. 410, P. 190

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number: R1944
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Emily J. Peters, ed., The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI, 2009), cat. no. 52a, repr. as pl. 28 on p. 80 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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R1944: Prodigal Son (left plate only)