Christ and the Adultress

1579

Pedro Perret

Artist, Flemish, 1555 - c. 1625

Pieter de Jode I

Publisher, Flemish, 1570 - 1634

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 26.8 × 34.1 cm (10 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.437

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. A2, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1964; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

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. A2, state i/ii; The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2020: Part VII, no. 927, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: BRVEGEL. M.D.LXV.; lower center, in image, in plate: P. Perret. fe 79; lower right, in image, in plate: Cum Privilegio; bottom center, within composition:DVE SONDER ONDE IS / DIE; lower margin, in plate: QVI SINE PECCATO EST VESTRVM, PRIMVS IN ILLAM LAPIDEM MITTAT. Ioan. 8. / Antverpiae apud Petrum de Iode.; verso, lower right: [unidentified collector's mark?]

Wikidata ID

Q65511668

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