About the Artwork
Massacre of the Innocents
ca. 1617
Hendrick Goltzius
1558-1617
Dutch
Unknown
Engraving printed in black, pen and brown ink and graphite on laid paper
Plate: 19 × 14 3/4 inches (48.3 × 37.5 cm) Sheet: 19 3/4 × 15 1/4 inches (50.2 × 38.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S533
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right of image: [artist's monogram]
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Stamped, in red and purple, verso: Rijks Prentenkabinet (Lugt 240 and 699)
Provenance
Rijks Prentenkabinet (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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. 2 (fig. 1 ill.), p. 11.
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Hendrick Goltzius, Massacre of the Innocents, ca. 1617, engraving printed in black, pen and brown ink and graphite on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S533.
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