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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.299
People
Anton Wierix II, Flemish (c. 1555/1559 - 1604)
Previously attributed to Pieter de Jode, the Elder, Flemish (1570 - 1634)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The Descent from the Cross; The Entombment
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Scenes from the Birth and Passion of Christ
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
after 1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342607

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: 20.1 x 12.6 cm (7 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
right: 21 x 12.6 cm (8 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 311
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower left corner of design area: 19 / 20
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower margin: Solvtur è ligno Domini venerabile corpus / Exanimumq novo conditur in tumulo. / Virgo Dei genitrix animo transfixa dolore / Nati deplorat funera sacra sui. // Hic Domino fidus Nicodemus, et almus Joseph Componunt munda sidone membra Dei / Vnguentisq novo tumulo decorata reclinant / Heu, matri pressit pectora mœsta dolor!
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, left and right, brown ink: Joseph d'Arimathie Conseiller, homme juste voyant que Jesus auoit / rendu l'esprit demande le corp jceluy a pilate, et ay l'vn auet. / homme, nommé Nycodeme, disciple de Jesus le desend de la Croix. // Joseph et Nycodeme ayant achetté vn linceul en leur lissent le / corps de Jesus l'ayant premierement oingt d'vnguent odorifecans.
  • watermark: Gothic P

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) 420, 421; New Hollstein (de Vos) 455.I, 456.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
2011.613.299
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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