2019.132: Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.132

People

Hieronymus Cock, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1510 - 1570 Antwerp)
After Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)

Title

Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1554

Culture

Netherlandish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/362966

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and engraving on off-white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

plate: 31.9 × 43.8 cm (12 9/16 × 17 1/4 in.)
sheet (irregular): 39.8 × 50.4 cm (15 11/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower left: H. Cock fecit.; below image: NON IN SOLO PANE VICTVRVS EST HOMO, SED OMNI VERBO QVOD DIGREDITVR PER OS DEI MAR. 4. DEVT.8.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Julian Edison, Saint Louis; by descent; to Hope Rabb Edison, his wife, Saint Louis, 2017, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

only state

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Hope R. Edison '56 in memory of Julian I. Edison '51, MBA '53

Accession Year

2019

Object Number

2019.132

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Frits Lugt, "Pieter Bruegel und Italien", Festschrift für Max Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstage (Leipzig, 1927), pp. 111-129, pp. 112, 115 (not Harvard impression)
• Joseph Alexander Graf Raczynski, Die flämische Landschaft vor Rubens: Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der flämischen Landschaftsmalerei in der Zeit von Brueghel bis zu Rubens (Frankfurt am Main, 1937), pp. 16-17 (not Harvard impression)
• F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700., Menno Hertzberger (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1949-2010), vol. 4, no. 2
• Konrad Oberhuber, Zwischen Renaissance und Barock: Das Zeitalter von Bruegel und Bellange, exh. cat., Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Vienna, 1967), no. 16 (not Harvard impression)
• Lydia de Pauw-de Veen, Jérome Cock, éditeur d'estampes et graveur 1507?-1570, exh. cat., Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er (Brussels, 1970), no. 148 (not Harvard impression)
• Timothy A. Riggs, "Hieronymus Cock (1510-1570): Printmaker and Publisher in Antwerp at the Sign of The Four Winds" (1971), Yale University, pp. 270-271, no. 36 (not Harvard impression)
• Jacqueline Burgers, In de Vier Winden: De prentuitgeverij van Hieronymus Cock 1507/10-1570 te Antwerpen; uit de collectie tekeningen en prenten, exh. cat., Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 1988), no. 22 (not Harvard impression)
• David Freedberg, The Prints of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, exh. cat., Bridgestone Museum of Art (Tokyo, 1989), no. 96 (not Harvard impression)
• Barbara Butts and Joseph Koerner, The Printed World of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, exh. cat., Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis, 1995), no. 3, repr.
• Nadine Orenstein and Manfred Sellink, Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, exh. cat., ed. Nadine Orenstein, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2001), cat. no. 16, pp. 108-110, repr.

Exhibition History

• The Printed World of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Saint Louis Art Museum, 04/04/1995 - 06/25/1995; Harvard Art Museums, 09/02/1995 - 11/12/1995
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 05/24/2001 - 08/05/2001; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/25/2001 - 12/02/2001

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