Maarten de Vos

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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
Nathan Predicts the Death of David's Son : 2 Samuel 12:7-14
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
7 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (197 x 260 mm)
2006.23:9
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Watermark: fragment of a fleur-de-lis above letters "FP" (Briquet 9406: Lorraine, 1584).
Engraved in reverse by Aegidius Sadeler (ca. 1555-1609?) (Hollstein XXI, p. 9, no. 9).
Folio 9 from an album by de Vos with drawings illustrating the Life of David and Subjects from the New Testament. Also see record for album as a whole.

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Sadeler, Aegidius, approximately 1555-1609?, engraver.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 106, no. 228, repr.

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