Acht Nieuw Testamentische scènes op een blad, Jan Luyken, 1712

Title(s)

Acht Nieuw Testamentische scènes op een blad

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1896-A-19368-2844

Catalogue reference

• Van Eeghen 4036
• Van Eeghen 4038
• Van Eeghen 4039
• Van Eeghen 4040
• Van Eeghen 4041
• Van Eeghen 4042
• Van Eeghen 4044
• Van Eeghen 4045

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• printmaker: Jan Luyken (mentioned on object)
• publisher: weduwe Pieter Arentsz & Cornelis van der Sys (II)

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

1712

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 285 mm × width 375 mm

What

• the rich man (Dives) is feasting, while poor Lazarus is starving at the gate (dogs licking Lazarus' sores) (Luke 16:19-31)
• Christ talking with Nicodemus at night (John 3:1-21)
• Christ and the woman of Samaria: sitting at Jacob's well he asks her for a drink from her jug
• Christ washes Peter's feet
• appearance of Christ at the Lake of Gennesaret (Sea of Galilee, Sea of Tiberias): miraculous draught of fishes (after the Resurrection)
• the Ascension (Christ surrounded by radiant light or in a mandorla)
• healing of a lame beggar at the Beautiful Gate of the temple by Peter and John (Acts 3 - 4:31)
• a multitude of the sick healed by Peter and other disciples (Acts 5:12-16)

Acquisition

purchase Jul-1896

Copyright

Public domain

• Het werk van Jan en Casper Luyken, P. van Eeghen (Pieter) , 1844-1907, dl. 2, p. 704-706