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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.319
People
Anton Wierix II, Flemish (c. 1555/1559 - 1604)
After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
Saint Matthias; Saint Paul
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Christ, the Apostles, and Saint Paul, with the Creed
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
before 1585
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342627

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
left: 20.5 x 14.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
right: 19.8 x 13.9 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 331.
  • inscription: in plate, left only, upper edge of design area, at right: S. MATHIAS.
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower edge of design area, toward right: 13 / 14
  • inscription: in plate, left and right, lower margin: ET VITAM AETERNAM. AMEN / MATTHIAS ex tribe Iude, sublato Dnō nostro sorteq, Apostolus oligitur; teste Luca. In Iu = / dea Euangelium docuit. Hic euim doctrine singularis, caste vite, prudentisq fuit consilÿ. Abac = / tis tandem in rem malam presfigijs, belo confossus, exstinguit. // EGO ENIM SVM MINIMVS APOSTOLORVM QVI NON SUM DIGNVS VOCARI / APOSTOLVS : QVONIAM PERSECVTVS SVM ECCLESIAM DEI. GRATIA AVTEM / DEI SVM QVOD SVM, ET GRATIA EIVS IN ME TEMERE NON EVIT.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, left and right, brown ink: Sct, Mathias de la lignée de Juda, apres l'ascension de nostre seigneur fut esleu apostle / par sort comme temoigbe sct. Lucm il inseigna l'euangile en Judee, fut homme docā au / possible, haste, de bon et sage conseil, ayant finalement estouffé toute jdolatrie / et superstition il reçoit la couronne de martyre. // Je suis le moindre des Apostles, jndigne mesmes d'estre appellé apostle dautant / que jay persecuté l'eglise de dieu. Mais par la grace du mesme dieu je suis / de que je suis, la grace duquel n'a estré vainement ou jn vtilement employé / en moy.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii, iii/iv
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 492, 493; Hollstein 1152.II, 1153.III.b

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.613.319
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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