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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
Saul Pursuing David in the Wilderness : 1 Samuel 23:14-29
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaqe watercolor, over black chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
7 13/16 x 10 1/16 inches (198 x 256 mm)
2006.23:14
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Watermark: fragment of an eagle within a shield (Briquet 224: Antwerp, 1583[?]).
Engraved in reverse by Aegidius Sadeler (ca. 1555-1609?) (Hollstein, XXI, p. 9, no. 6).
Folio 14 from an album by de Vos with drawings illustrating the Life of David and Subjects from the New Testament. Also see record for album as a whole.
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Sadeler, Aegidius, approximately 1555-1609?, engraver.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 107, no. 233, repr.
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