Heilige Bernardus met een kruik met olie, Caspar Merian, after Hans Holbein (II), after Ambrosius Holbein, 1676

Identification

Title(s)

Heilige Bernardus met een kruik met olie
Illustraties uit de Lof der Zotheid (series title)

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-OB-21.848

Catalogue reference

Hollstein German 43

Creation

Artist

print maker: Caspar Merian
after drawing by: Hans Holbein (II)
after drawing by: Ambrosius Holbein
publisher: Johann Rudolf Genath

Dating

1516 and/or 1676

Material and Technique

Material

paper

Technique

etching / letterpress printing

Measurements

height 77 mm × width 61 mm

Explanatory note

Prent afkomstig uit: Erasmus, Desiderius. Morias enkomion (...). Bazel: Johann Rudolf Genath, 1676. De prenten hierin zijn naar tekeningen die Hans en Ambrosius Holbein maakten voor de theoloog Oswald Myconius in diens uitgave van de Moriae encomium (Lof der Zotheid) van 1516.

Subject

What

Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian monk and abbot; possible attributes: beehive, chained dragon, crucifix, cross with instruments of the Passion, (three) mitre at his feet, white dog

Who

Desiderius Erasmus

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Documentation

The drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger for Erasmus' "Praise of folly", p. 449, cat.nr. 80

Persistent URL

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