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Susanna,

ca. 1560

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1498–1574; born Heemskerck, Netherlands; died Haarlem, Netherlands
x1962-53
A leading artist in Haarlem, Heemskerck visited Rome in the 1530s and made numerous drawings after antique sculptures and architecture. These provided him with a rich source of classical motifs that he employed in his designs for hundreds of engravings and etchings, which were executed by Philips Galle and other printmakers and disseminated throughout Europe. This drawing’s fine pen-and-ink hatching is suited to its purpose—a detailed study for the adjoining engraving by Galle, which reverses the composition. The Princeton sheet is one of several surviving studies for the print series Eight Exemplary Women from the Old and New Testament; the other Biblical heroines represented are Abigail, Esther, Jael, Judith, Ruth, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene.

Information

Title
Susanna
Dates

ca. 1560

Maker

Maarten van Heemskerck

Medium
Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Dimensions
20 x 25 cm (7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1962-53
Inscription
In ink, verso, center: Kerricks' Catalogue page 7 | Martin Hemskirk [in R. P. Roupell's hand] Stamp in black ink, verso, lower right: 1135 [on an attached piece of paper]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black, verso, upper center: [IMG in a cartouche] [Lugt 1496] Monogram in black ink, verso, lower right: [R P R] [Lugt 2234]
Culture
Netherlandish
Type
drawings
Subject
men, standing, women, elderly, nudes

John MacGowan (?-1803; stamp L.1496), Edinburgh; MacGouan Sale, T. Philipe, London, 1804. Henry Reveley (1737-1798), Hugh Reveley (1772-1851), or Hugh John Reveley (1812-1889), Bryn y Gwin, North Wales; Reveley Sale, Christie's, London, 1852?; [Hamilton], 1860; Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798-1886), London, monogram (L. 2234); Roupell sale, Chrisitie's, 1887 (lot 999); possibly Heinrich Burkhart Loedel (1798-1861); Sale, Karl and Faber, Munich, 1959 (lot 108); Robert Light, Boston, 1962. On the provenance see The Robert Lehman Collection in bibliography.

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