Piëta, Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Title(s)

Piëta

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-B-37-41-44

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 41-2(2)
• Hollstein Dutch 50-2(2)
• New Hollstein Dutch 31-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• monogram: ‘HG’
• date: ‘ Ao. 96’
• collector's mark: Lugt 10
• collector's mark: Lugt 11

Description

Maria met de gestorven Christus in de armen, hem bewenend, zittend op een steen.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius
• Albrecht Dürer
• Michelangelo
• publisher: Hendrick Goltzius

Place

Haarlem

Dating

1596

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 188 mm × width 130 mm

What

• 'Pietà ', 'Vesperbild', 'Marienklage' (no others present): Christ, either with or without crown of thorns, mourned by Mary

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Piëta
• Piëta

• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. I, p. 74, cat.nr. 31
• Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) : tekeningen, prenten en schilderijen, Huigen Leeflang, Ger Luijten, Lawrence W. Nichols, p. 226-227, cat.nr. 81
• Goltzius-studies : Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), p. 215, cat.nr. 138