Maria met Kind en de H. Norbert, Wenceslaus Hollar, after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, 1650

Title(s)

Maria met Kind en de H. Norbert

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-11.153

Catalogue reference

• Pennington 226
• New Hollstein German (Hollar) 1079

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Description

Maria met kind en engelen verschijnen aan de Heilige Norbert. De afbeelding wordt omgeven door de heiligen Jakobus, Jozef, Giselbert en Wilhelmus en twee allegorische voorstellingen van de Vita Activa en Vita Contemplativa.

Artist

• print maker: Wenceslaus Hollar (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Abraham van Diepenbeeck (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1650

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 198 mm × width 139 mm

What

• the founder of the Praemonstratensians, and archbishop of Magdeburg, Norbert; possible attributes: chalice (with spider), devil under feet, monstrance, the heretic Tankelin
• 'Sacra Conversazione'
• contemplative life; 'Vita contemplativa' (Ripa)
• active life; 'Vita attiva' (Ripa)

Acquisition

unknown 2011

Copyright

Public domain

• Wenceslaus Hollar, Giulia Bartrum, Simon Turner, Part IV, p. 118, cat.nr. 1079
• A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. 27, cat.nr. 226