The Triumph of Patience

1559

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Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, Maarten van Heemskerck, and others

The Triumph of Patience

1559

Physical Qualities Engraving and etching with transparent and opaque watercolor, heightened with gold and silver, Sheet: 267 x 332 mm. (10 1/2 x 13 1/16 in.) Plate: 210 x 260 mm. (8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Portfolio/Series From the series "The Triumph of Patience"

Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund

Object Number 1998.6

Here, a woman dressed in blue, symbolizing Patience, holdsa red flag decorated with a rose while being pulled on a cart by the figures of Hope and Longing. An unidentified artist hand-colored this print by Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert using vibrant pigments to enhance the drama of the composition. Conservation scientists, using X-ray fluorescence technology, examined the colors in these prints to determine their composition. Look at the chart below to match the color to the source material. This XRF analysis was conducted by Janice Carlson at the Winterthur Museum Analytical Laboratory, Winterthur, Delaware.

Helmut Rumbler purchased the print in an antiquarian bookshop in Vienna.

Susan Dackerman, BMA, Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color, Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003; tour to The Saint Louis Art Museum, February 14- May 18, 2003.

BMA PDS Newsletter, Vol. XVII, No. 2/Spring 2000, p. 3.

Susan Dackerman. Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings, & Woodcuts. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, pages 64 and 165.

Susan Dackerman, "A Collector for All of Us." Newsletter of The Print & Drawing Society of The Baltimore Museum of Art (Fall 2004), illus. p. 13.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: lower left in plate: "MH inven // H. Cock excud"; lower right in plate: "DVC fecit"; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: "8"; by later hand, upper right in black ink: "101"

Markings: none - not visible