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Jacob Gole

Artist, Dutch, 1660 - 1724

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.8 x 18.2 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 26.4 x 19.6 cm (10 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.60.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 347

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector (Lugt 2930); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Everyday Life in Black and White. Dutch Mezzotints from the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, 2008, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1889

  • Wessely 1889, 347.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1952: VII, no. 103.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: J. Gole fe. et ex.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 2.50.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Wessely 347; ; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: L[%?}; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: CM

Wikidata ID

Q75122160

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