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Blessed Are the Peacemakers


The Eight Beatitudes, plate 7
Harmen Jansz. Muller (Netherlandish, about 1538/39–1617)
After: Maarten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498–1574)
about 1566

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 21.3 × 24.8 cm (8 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 × 31 cm (9 9/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number63.549
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné New Hollstein (Muller Dynasty, part I) 43, iii / iii
State III/III
DescriptionBlessed Are the Peacemakers: Matthew 5:9; Abigail Soothing David: 1 Samuel 25:23-35
Signed Signed in plate, on stone below horse's foot: HMVL fe.; and on stone, lower center: MHeemskerck/Inuen.
Marks Recto, lower right, in graphite: H. 408; in right and bottom margins: [transcriptions of Latin text, in faded ink]; verso, MFA stamp (Lugt 282) with accession number in graphite: 63.549
InscriptionsTitle inscribed in plate, left of center: BEATI PACI=/FICI, QVONI=/AM FILII/DEI VOCA/BVNTVR./Matt. 5.9.; and four lines of Latin verse in lower margin, lower left: Macte animo, placidæ insistis qui munera pacis,/Rixarum fugitans, talem quia numen adoptat.; lower right: Muncribus placat tessidæ molliter iram,/Conciliat que' virim Abbigail, pacem que'repnit.; 7
ProvenanceMay 8, 1963, puchased from Craddock & Barnard (dealers), London, by the MFA. (Acquisition Date: May 8, 1963)