Loading
Christ Foretelling the Betrayal of Judas Iscariot at the Last Supper
Cornelis Bos, Maarten van Heemskerckca. 1551
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Christ Foretelling the Betrayal of Judas Iscariot at the Last Supper
- Creator: Attributed to Cornelis Bos, after Maerten van Heemskerck
- Date Created: ca. 1551
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, bottom edge of image: “M. HEEMSK”; inscribed in plate, below image: “ET CVM FACTA ESSET HORA DISCVBIT & DUODECIM APOSTOLI CVM EO: ET AIT ILLIS. DESIDERIO / DESIDERAVI HOC PASCHA MANDVCARE VOBISCVM ANTEQVAM PATIAR.”; inscribed in plate below image, lower right corner: “N. de cleck exc.”
- Print State: Second of three states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2006
- Materials & Techniques: Engraving on medium-weight, off-white laid paper. Watermark: Bunch of grapes watermark comparable to Briquet 13074, suggesting the paper is from Lyons
- Keywords: Bible, Jesus, New Testament
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: N. de Cleck
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 293 mm x 411 mm (11.54 in. x 16.18 in.). Sheet dimensions: 355 mm x 449 mm (13.98 in. x 17.68 in.).
- Bibliography: New Hollstein (Heemskerck) 375 ii/iii; for more on the life of Bos, see Sune Schéle, Cornelis Bos: A Study of the Origins of the Netherlandish Grotesque (Stockholm: Almquist + Wiksell, 1965); see also Peter van der Coelen, Cornelis Bos: Where Did He Go? Some New Discoveries and Hypotheses about a Sixteenth-Century Engraver and Publisher, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 23, nos. 2/3 (1995), p. 142.
- Associated People: Attributed to Cornelis Bos (Dutch (Flemish), ca. 1510 - before 1566), After Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498-1574)
- Accession Number: 2006.7.1
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.