Maarten de Vos

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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
Saul Seeking to Smite David with His Javelin : 1 Samuel 18:11 or 1 Samuel 19:9-10
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, with white, on paper; incised with a stylus.
7 3/4 x 10 inches (196 x 255 mm)
2006.23:2
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Watermark: none.
Engraved in reverse by Aegidius Sadeler (ca. 1555-1609?) (Hollstein XXI, p. 8, no. 2). The instructions inscribed on the drawing were followed by the engraver, and except for the ommission of the column and its heavy pedestal at the far left of the drawing, no other major alterations in De Vos's drawing were made.
Folio 2 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. 104, no. 221, repr.

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