Geboorte van Christus: kerstmis, Johann Sadeler (I), after Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1560 - 1600

Title(s)

Geboorte van Christus: kerstmis
Natalis Christi (title on object)
De vier belangrijkste Christelijke feestdagen (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-5291

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 141

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Maria en Jozef geknield bij Christus in de kribbe; achter hen de os en de ezel, in een stal met gehavend dak. In ornamentlijst met links de herders, rechts de vrouwen die het kind komen aanbidden. In de vier hoeken scènes uit het Nieuwe Testament in ovalen. Middenboven engelenkoren bij een wimpel waarop de Latijnse tekst: Vera...canunt.

Artist

• print maker: Johann Sadeler (I)
• after design by: Johann Sadeler (I) (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Marcus Gheeraerts (I) (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Johann Sadeler (I) (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp (possibly)

Dating

1560 - 1600

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 290 mm × width 222 mm

What

• Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)
• Christmas (ecclesiastical feast)
• tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: saw
• John the Baptist disputing
• John the Baptist in prison
• entry into Jerusalem: people spreading their clothes before Christ on the ass, and waving palm branches (Matthew 21:1-11, 21:14-16; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12:12-19)
• comprehensive representation of Last Judgement: Christ (with sword and lily), often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devils

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II : text, p. 103, cat.nr. 141