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A black and white print shows a group of men inside a building worshipping a baby.

A woman with long, fair hair sits on a cushion, which is placed on the floor of a stone room, and holds a baby on her lap. He is naked and stands on her legs to touch the container filled with coins that is held in front of him by a kneeling man. The man wears a voluminous robe, faces the child, and has his back to the rest of the onlookers. Behind him are two men holding closed containers, and they also wear large and fur-lined robes. The man to the left is of African descent. The man to the right passes his hat to another man standing next to him, who wears a crown of leaves on his head, a quiver around his chest, and no shoes on his feet. Behind them, in the room and spilling outside, is a large crowd of men who wear plumed hats and turbans. In the lefthand corner of the scene, a man strides forward into the room and holds his round hat in front of him.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G2437
People
Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish (Leiden 1494 - 1533 Leiden)
Title
Adoration of the Magi
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1513
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/278425

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
image: 30.2 × 43.5 cm (11 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.)
sheet: 30.6 × 43.8 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: signed in plate, lower left: 'L'
  • collector's mark: verso, brown ink: Stiglmeier / in Straubing / 1857 [Lugt 2314]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Johann Baptist Stiglmaier, Munich (Lugt 2314). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 37; Bartsch 37

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G2437
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Amy Golahny, "Exhibition Review: Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450-1750", Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, Historians of Netherlandish Art ([online], July 2024), https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/exhibition-review-imagine-me-and-you-dutch-and-flemish-encounters-with-the-islamic-world-1450-1750/, accessed July 17, 2024

Exhibition History

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