Artist Painting a Nude Woman: Allegory of Visual Perception

c. 1598; published 1616

Jan Pietersz Saenredam

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1607

Robert de Baudous

Publisher, Flemish, 1574/1575 - after 1655

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession

    1973.59.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 106, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1980: XXIII, no. 106, ii/iii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2012; Part IV, no. 716, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

in image at lower left, in plate: HG. Inuent. I. Saenr. scu. / R. de baudous excudit. 1616.; in margin below image, in plate: Haec memini nocuisse atque oblectasse videntes. [I know from experience that this affords the beholder both harm and pleasure]

Wikidata ID

Q65571290

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