The Elders Trying to Seduce Susanna, plate 1 from the set "The Story of Susanna"
Hans I Collaert, Flemish, about 1530 - 1581
after Maarten de Vos, Flemish, 1532 - 1603
after Gillis Coignet, Flemish, about 1538 - 1599
about 1579-1585
Engraving on laid paper
Plate: 7 15/16 × 10 5/16 in. (20.2 × 26.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 in. (27.4 × 35.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940
PR.2003.10.1
Publisher
Gerard de Jode, Antwerp
Geography
Place Made: Belgium, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in brown ink, upper right margin: 2i; inscribed, in plate, lower center: G.d.Iode excud; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: Illicito castum Susanna pectus amore, Tentatur talami seruat at illa fidem. Daniel. i3.; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: H. 6 Gerard de Jode 1509-91; Watermark, center left: [indistinct; unidentified]
Course History
WGST 80, Feminist Theory and Methodology, Jennifer Fluri, Fall 2012
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 81.03, The Viral Image, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 15-September 20, 2003.
Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe, The Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 5-June 12, 2021.
Provenance
Spaightwood Galleries, Madison, Wisconsin; sold to present collection, 2003.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (The Collaert Dynasty) Vol. 1: 74
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