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The Four Fathers of the Church

Cornelius van Dalen II, Peter Paul Rubens, Abraham Blooteling

The Four Fathers of the Church

1649-1663

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Cornelius van Dalen II, Peter Paul Rubens, Abraham Blooteling

The Four Fathers of the Church

1649-1663

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 339 × 265 mm. (13 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.) Plate: 326 × 254 mm. (12 13/16 × 10 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.11381
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower margin, in plate "In Effigiem Quatuor-Vivorum [...]", with two columns of four lines in Latin below, beginning "Adspice, Posteritas [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "P. P. Rubens / Pinxit"; below image, lower right, in plate "C. van Dalen Junior / sculpsit. / A. Blotelingh Exc."

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Cornelius van Dalen II

Dutch, 1638-c. 1664
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Artist

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish, 1577-1640
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Publisher

Abraham Blooteling

Dutch, 1640-1690
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