The Nativity
Pieter de Jode I, Flemish, 1570 - 1634
after Bartolomeus Spranger, Flemish, 1546 - 1611
about 1600
Engraving on wove paper
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 5/8 in. (23.5 × 16.9 cm)
Mount: 10 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (27.4 × 19.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
2005.51
Geography
Place Made: Belgium, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left: B. Spranger; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Et Soror, et mater, et Regis filia nati, / Qui mare cum terris, lucid aqi astra regit.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: Infantem puerum nutu compellat amico, / Ridentesq's iocos, verbaqs blanda serit. / F.E.
Provenance
Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2005.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein 60, only state
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