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405

After Hieronymus Bosch

Circa 1450 – ’s-Hertogenbosch – 1516

"Die Versuchung des Heiligen Christophorus“ (The Temptation of St. Christopher) formerly known as "Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius“ (The Temptation of St. Anthony). 1561

Etching and copper engraving on laid paper; published by Hieronymus Cock, engraved by Jan and Lucas Deutecum. 33,3 × 42,8 cm (13 ⅛ × 16 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: After Hieronymus Bosch.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 11,200

 

- 16,900

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Orangerie Selected Objects, Thursday, 26.11.2015

Information

Etching and copper engraving on laid paper; published by Hieronymus Cock, engraved by Jan and Lucas Deutecum. 33,3 × 42,8 cm (13 ⅛ × 16 ⅞ in.). Inscribed in the plate: HIERONIMVS BOS INVE / H. Cock excu. 1561; in the lower margin with the Latin inscription: MVLTÆ TRIBVLATIONES IVSTORVM DE OMNIBVS IIS LIBERABIT EOS DOMINVS · PSAL· 33 · [Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all; Psalm 34:20]. Catalogue raisonné: Wurzbach 11, New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum Family, Part II), p. 50, no. 216 / Timothy A. Riggs: Hieronymus Cock. Printmaker and Publisher, Dissertation Yale University, New York 1977, no. 7.

Further prints in, among others, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, inv. no. 74.7.47 / Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York (as temptation of St. Anthony), inv. no. 26.72.58.

Related literature: Hieronymus Boschs Erbe, exh. cat., Dresden 2015, p. 83 / Joris Van Griecken et al. (ed.): Hieronymus Cock. The Renaissance in print, exh. cat., Brussels 2013

We would like to thank Nora Haubold at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden for kindly providing additional information.

Since 1980 private collection, southern Germany

Peter H. Köhl: Alte Graphik [Battenberg Antiquitäten-Kataloge], Munich 1980, cat. no. 67, p. 102