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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3094
People
Paulus Pontius, Flemish (Antwerp 1603 - 1658 Antwerp)
After Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Christ Bearing the Cross
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1632
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279543

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 61.3 x 45.9 cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/16 in.)
framed: 84.5 x 69.5 cm (33 1/4 x 27 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Paulus Pontius sculpsit
  • inscription: 1632, below image, printer's ink, engraved, Latin, signed: lower left corner: Petrus Paul Rubens pinxit / Paulus Pontius sculpsit
    lower right corner: Cum privilegijs Regis Christianissimi, Serenissima Infantis / et Ordinum confederatorum. An. 1632
  • inscription: center, below image, printer's ink, engraved, Latin: IESVS BAIVLANS CRVCEM EXIVIT IN EVM QVI DICITVR CALVARLAE LOCVM . Ioan . cap. XIX. / Apprehenderunt SIMONEM quendam Cyrenensem, et imposuerunt illi Crucem portare post IESVM. / Ducebantur et alij duo nequam cum eo, vt interficerentur. Luc. cap. 23.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to, William Gray (his nephew), 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
LeBlanc 13; Hollstein 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3094
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2008 - 10/19/2008
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/02/2009 - 10/12/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/2010 - 10/09/2010
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/10/2015 - 03/03/2016

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