The Circumcision, from The Life of the Virgin
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
1593-1594
Engraving on laid paper
Image: 18 1/4 × 13 7/8 in. (46.3 × 35.2 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 15 13/16 in. (52 × 40.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil, Jr. 1935 Fund and the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund
2008.72.4
Geography/Culture
Europe, Netherlands
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Signed and dated, in block, lower center: 1594 / HG [H and G overlap]; numbered, in block, lower left margin: 4; inscribed, in block, lower left margin: Cernis vt octaua sit cirumcisus Jesus / Luce puer, tenero accipiens in corpore vulnus; inscribed, in block, lower center margin: Ad normam veteris legis, vitumque receptum, / Jsacidis multos obseruatumque per annos.; inscribed, in block, lower right margin: C. Schoneus ..; numbered, in ink, upper right margin: 4; numbered, in ink, lower right margin: no. 80 [o is superscript]; inscribed, in ink, lower left: EP.; inscribed, in graphite, upper center margin: Circumcision - A. Durer. [in script]; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: B. 323 Watermark: Encircled Six-Pointed Star
Course History
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
New Acquisitions, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Elevator Vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1, 2009-present.
Envisioning Jerusalem: Prints from Durer to Rembrandt, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 9-June 19, 2011.
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Newton Center, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2008.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 18; Hirschmann 12
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