Antonius Wierix II and Bernadino Passeri
Christ Walking on the Water
1592
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 232 × 142 mm. (9 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.5461
Wierix belonged to a family of Flemish printmakers active mainly in Antwerp in the last quarter of the sixteenth and first quarter of the seventeenth centuries. Jesuits and other militant Counter-Reformation sects commissioned most of the large numbers of
engraved works the family produced.
Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Influence of Paris
Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Supplemente zu den Handbüchern der Kupferstichkunde (Stuttgart: Verlag von W. Spemann, 1881): vol. II, pp. 266 [NYPL].
Additional information to Alvin 1866.
Additional information to Alvin 1866.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Ber. Pass. Rom. inven."; in image, lower right, in plate "Ant. Wierx sculpsit" [with additional inscriptions in Latin above and below image] Verso: lower center in graphite diamond with "6475"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
