About the Artwork
Balaam and the Ass
between 1600 and 1655
Herman van Swanevelt
1600-1655
Dutch
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 × 12 1/4 inches (22.9 × 31.1 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1137
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, upper right of image: H Swaneuelt [sic] Fecit Rom | K. Audran excudit
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
Sept. 1887 , C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad).1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Herman van Swanevelt, Balaam and the Ass, between 1600 and 1655, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1137.
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