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Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburgh (1580-1612)
The Sinners of the Old and New Testament, after Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651): Saulus Rex, Plate 5, 1611
Engraving
Signed & dated in plate 'ABloemaert Invent: / W. Swanenb. Sculp: et exc. / an. 1611.'
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This print of a battlefield with Saul and his servant throwing themselves on their swords, a spear and crown lying on the ground in foreground, belongs to the series of...
This print of a battlefield with Saul and his servant throwing themselves on their swords, a spear and crown lying on the ground in foreground, belongs to the series of penitent saints engraved and published by Willem van Swanenburgh after designs by Abraham Bloemaert, who conceived of them as three contrasting, yet compositionally related pairs: Peter and Paul, Zachaeus and the Magdalen, and King Saul and Judas Iscariot. Below Saul is an inscription composed by Petrus Scriverious (1576–1660), a distinguished historian, poet, and scholar of classical literature, who was eternalized by Frans Hals.
Provenance
Paul McCarron Fine Prints and Drawings, New York, 1996Private collection, New York
Literature
Hollstein 11 II/IIIMarcel Roethlisberger, "Abraham Bloemaert's Series of the Penitents", Print Quarterly, Vol. IX, no. 1 (March 1992), pp. 36-45