The Visitation
1593
Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 47.4 x 35.2 cm (18 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1994.21.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein 1996, no. 9, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paul McCarron, New York; purchased 1994 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.
1921
Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie
1977
Strauss 1977, 318.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 9, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
lower right, in image, in plate: 1593 / HG; lower left, numbered in image, in plate: 2; below image, in plate: Plena Deo virgo, coelesti Pneumate foeta, / Cognatam Helisaben montana per aspera visit; / Exultat sterilis foecunda, exultat et infans / Iam tunc in gravidae genitricis ventre Prophetes. / F. Estius (The maiden, full of God, pregnant by the Holy Ghost, went through the barren mountains to visit her relative Elizabeth. The infertile pregnant woman rejoiced, as did the child, then already a prophet, in the pregnant mother's womb. F[ranco] Estius)
[Latin translations from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 210.]
Wikidata ID
Q75124843