Death of the Virgin
Philip Galle, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612
after Pieter Bruegel, the elder, Netherlandish, 1520 - 1569
1574
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 16 7/16 in. (30.8 × 41.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
PR.973.172
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on plate, lower left: Sir Petri Brugelij/archetypiu. Philipp./Galleus imitabatur./Gnati certa tui Virgo cum regna petebas/Complebant pectus gaudia quanta tuum./Quid tibi dulce magis guerat quam carcere terre/Migrare optati in templa superna polis/...Abrah. Ortelius,/libi & amicis,/fieri curabat.; collection mark, lower right: AM [encircled]
Exhibition History
17th and 18th Century Prints, Art 46 Northern Baroque, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-April 23, 1978.
Art 1, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.
Art 1, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December, 1973.
Art 39, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 11-January 18, 1974.
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2 - March 10, 1996.
Late Medieval and Renaissance Prints, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 15, 1974.
Palmer Lounge Cases, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-July 1973.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.
Teaching the History of Western Art 1500-Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 27-March 11, 2001.
The Renaissance: Forms, Reforms and Revolutions, Barrows-Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 3, 1982.
Provenance
Denenberg Fine Arts, Inc., San Francisco, California; sold to present collection, 1973.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein 7: no. 155; Bartsch: 56.060
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