The Christ of the Sponge

17th century

Anton van Dyck, Artist Schelte Adams Bolswert, Artist Martinus van den Enden, Publisher

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Title The Christ of the Sponge

Artwork Date 17th century

Makers Anton van Dyck (Artist) Flemish, 1599-1641 Schelte Adams Bolswert (Artist) Dutch, 1586-1659 Martinus van den Enden (Publisher) Flemish

Medium Engraving in green-black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Plate: 25 1/8 × 17 3/4 inches (63.8 × 45.1 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S162.50

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, below image, in Latin, bottom margin, lower left: S. a. Bolswert Sculp. Inscribed, lower center: Cum privilegio Regis Subsign. Cools Inscribed, lower right: Martinus vanden Enden excudit. Inscribed, in plate, lower right of image: AVan Dijc. Inscribed, in black ink, along the bottom edge of sheet, trimmed completely off and reattached with tape: No. 162 1/2. The Christ of the Sponge. Christ on the Cross commending his mother to the beloved Disciple. By - Scheltius Bolswert.

Provenance

December 1894, Huneker sale (New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.]

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 10.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Schelte Adams Bolswert; after Anton van Dyck, The Christ of the Sponge, 17th century, engraving in green-black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S162.50.