The Garden of Love

c. 1633

Christoffel Jegher

Artist, Flemish, 1596 - 1652/1653

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed from two blocks on two sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Director's Discretionary Fund

  • Dimensions

    block: 46 x 119.6 cm (18 1/8 x 47 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 49.9 x 123.4 cm (19 5/8 x 48 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 17, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

lower left in block: P. P. Rub delin. et ex. CVM PREVILEGIS; lower center in block: C. Iegher. sc. P. P. Rub delin & ex. Cum Privilegijs; lower right in block: Christoffel Iegher.; verso: at upper left, in graphite, in later hand: 148 [indecipherable, underlined] / 108 [indecipherable]; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: XOX; by later hand, lower center verso in chalk: X02

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q75426226

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