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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
The Tending of the Sick : Matthew 25:42-43
1581
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
7 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (195 x 248 mm)
2006.23:22
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Watermark: none.
Engraved anonymously as one of the Seven Acts of Mercy included in Gerard de Jode's "Thesaurus novi testamenti" of 1585.
Folio 22 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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Signed and dated at lower center, "M D.VOS F. 1581".
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. 110, no. 241, repr.
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