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The Death of the Shunemmite Woman's Son (from the series Elisha and the Shunemmite Woman)
Hans (Jan Baptist I) Collaert (Netherlandish, 1566–1628)
Probably after: Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Probably after: Marten de Vos (Netherlandish, 1532–1603)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.8 x 29.2 cm (8 3/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number69.1012
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish), vol. IV, Hans (Jan Baptist I) Collaert, nos. 5-8 [though there are 6 plates, not 4], p. 211
Signed
not signed
Marks
recto, upper right, in ink: 95; verso, MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 69.1012
Inscriptionsin plate, in margin below engraved border, lower left: 3/Paruulus ad Patrem properans, du forte per estys,/Spicea dum grauidas diffundit Messis aristas.; lower right: Confestim tener heu morbo tentatur acuto,/Inq sinu matris vitales deserit auras.
Provenance1969, gift of Aimee Lamb (b. 1893 - d. 1989), Boston, and Rosamond Lamb (b. 1898 - d. 1989), Boston to the MFA.