Heilige Christoffel, Aegidius Sadeler (II), after Jacopo Bassano, 1605

Title(s)

Heilige Christoffel

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-5137

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 89-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

De H. Christoffel draagt het Christuskind op zijn schouders over een rivier. In zijn linkerhand een palmboom. Linksboven in de wolken Maria met kind en Johannes de Doper.

Artist

• print maker: Aegidius Sadeler (II) (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Jacopo Bassano (mentioned on object)
• Wolfgang Jacob Hoffman (mentioned on object)
• Rudolf II van Habsburg (Duits keizer) (mentioned on object)

Place

Prague (possibly)

Dating

1605

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 292 mm × width 205 mm

What

• the giant and martyr Christophorus; possible attributes: palm-tree (with bunches of dates, or withered), infant Christ - personal devotion of male saint (+ Mary)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II, Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer, p. 27, cat.nr. 89