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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.292
People
Anton Wierix II, Flemish (c. 1555/1559 - 1604)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The Agony in the Garden; Judas and His Companions Falling to Earth
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Secenes from the Birth and Passion of Christ
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
late 1580s
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342600

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
left: 21 x 12.8 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.)
right: 20.2 x 12.3 cm (7 15/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 304
  • inscription: in left plate, lower left corner of design area: 5
  • inscription: in right plate, upper right corner of lower margin: 6
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin of left and right plates: Sanguineus totoq fluit de corpore sudor, / Insontis Christi: qui rogat ista patrem. / Summe pater, qui cuncta potes rogo transfer amarum / Hunc calicis potum, sit tibi cura mei. // Vidit ut armatos Iuda ductore ministros, / Quen querant Dominus se docet esse palàm. / Nec mora, percussos tremor occupat, impia turba / In terram Domini voce repente cadit.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, below left and right plates, brown ink: Jesus allant prier au jardin des oliues prit Pierre, Jacques, et Jean auec soy, et s'estant vn piu eslongé d'eux / et prosterné en terre, feit telle priere a dieu son pere, Mon pere s'il est possible, que ce calice passe outre / de moy, toutesfois non ma volunté mais la tienne soit faicte, et estant en agnoisse sa sueur deueint comme / gouttes de sang. Vn Ange le console; il retourne à ses disciples lesquelz il trouue dormantz, et au mesme / temps Judas et sa trouppe entre au jardin. // Voicy comme Judas Jcariot auec vne grande multitude enuoyer des princes des ptres? / Scribes et anciens portant glaiues et bastons, entrent au jardin pour se saisir de la / personne de Jesus, auquilz il demande, que cherches vous? et eux respondent, / Jesus de Nazareth, et leur ayant dit C'est moy ilz tumberent a la renueche.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 406, 407; New Hollstein (de Vos) 441.I, 442.I

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.613.292
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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