Details
MAERTEN DE VOS (ANVERS 1532-1603)
Le Christ délivrant les prisonniers (sixième oeuvre de Miséricorde, Matthieu, 25, 36)
signé et daté 'marten de vos .F. 1582' (en bas à gauche)
plume et encre brune, lavis brun et gris, rehaussé de blanc
18,5 x 24 cm (7 ¼ x 9 ½ in.)
Provenance
Hector de Backer (1843-1925), Belgique, puis par descendance.
Literature
F. Stampfle et al., Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New Jersey, 1991, p. 110, sous le n° 241.
Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, XLIV, Rotterdam, 1996, p. 141, sous le n° 627.
Exhibited
Bruxelles, Société Générale de Banque, Dessins du XVe au XVIIIe siècle dans les collections privèes de Belgique, 1983, n° 13.
Engraved
en sens inverse, publié par Gerard de Jode dans Thesaurus novi testamenti,
1585 (Hollstein, op. cit., p. 141, n° 627 ; M. Leesberg, P. van der Coelen, The New Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, The De Jode Dynasty, II, Gerard de Jode, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 2018, n° 331, ill.).
Further details
MAERTEN DE VOS, CHRIST DELIVERING THE PRISONERS, PEN AND BROWN INK, GREY AND BROWN WASH, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE, SIGNED AND DATED
This characteristic drawing by Maerten de Vos served as the model for a print, in reverse, which is part of a series depicting the Seven Acts of Mercy published Gerard de Jode in his Thesaurus novi testamenti from 1585 (see Hollstein, op. cit., pp. 139-141, nos. 622-628, 45, Rotterdam 1995, ill.). Other drawings for the series of engravings have survived and amongst these are a drawing showing Sheltering Strangers in the Rijksmuseum (inv. RP-T-1899-A-4244), a sheet depicting The Burying of the Dead in the Louvre, Paris (inv. 20573) and a drawing showing The Tending of the Sick in the Morgan Library and Museum (inv. 2006.23:22), while further drawings have appeared on the art market or are in private collections (see F. Stampfle, op. cit., under no. 241).
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