Saint James and the Magician Hermogenes

published 1565

Pieter van der Heyden

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22 × 29.5 cm (8 11/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 24 × 31.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.405

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 11, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1908

  • Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 11, state i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower center, in image, in plate: Bruegel invent; lower right, in image, in plate: Cock. excudebat. 1565; in lower margin, in plate: DIVVS IACOBVS DIABOLICIS PRAESTIGIIS ANTE MAGVM SISTITVR (Saint James, by devilish deception, is placed before the magician) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 230.]

Wikidata ID

Q65511671

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