Hendrick Goltzius, Bartholomeus Spranger
The Holy Family
1583-1593
Hendrick Goltzius, Bartholomeus Spranger
The Holy Family
1583-1593
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate: "B. Spranger Inuent."; in image, lower right, in plate "HGoltzius sculp."; below image, lower margin, four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Virgo Palestinas inter [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "F. Estius." Verso: center left in brown ink CM of Pierre Mariette with date 1668; center in graphite indecipherable; lower left in graphite "[indecipherable]no + Mariette collection"; lower left in graphite diamond with indecipherable number; lower left in graphite "2164"; lower left in graphite "vo 3 P84"; lower center in graphite "[indecipherable]6"; lower right in graphite "B275"; lower right in graphite "owx / y"; lower right in graphite indecipherable
Markings: CM: Pierre Mariette II (Lugt 1789; with date 1668); Cabinet Brentano-Birkenstock (Lugt 345) WM: six pointed star in circle