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Cain Slaying Abel
Dutch
1589 - 1590
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 35.3 × 41.5 cm (13 7/8 × 16 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number2022.1997
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein 29; Bartsch 29; Hollstein 8
Marks
Recto, at lower right, the mark of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (Lugt 971)
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: Cor. Cornelij Harlemen / inventor. / Johan. Muller sculptor
Lower center, in plate: Impius, eccè, Cain fratrem iugulavit & Abelem, / Innocuo humectans sanguine primus humum.
Prò dolor! ex illo quot in orbe fuere Tyranni, / Queis terra innocuo tota crurore madet.
Lower right, in plate: Harmannus Muller / execudebat Amsterodami
Lower center, in plate: Impius, eccè, Cain fratrem iugulavit & Abelem, / Innocuo humectans sanguine primus humum.
Prò dolor! ex illo quot in orbe fuere Tyranni, / Queis terra innocuo tota crurore madet.
Lower right, in plate: Harmannus Muller / execudebat Amsterodami
ProvenanceFriedrich August II, King of Saxony (b. 1797 – d. 1854; Lugt 971), Dresden; until 1934, possibly remained in the Saxon royal collections; May 14-15, 1934, Friedrich August II sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, possibly included in lot 851. About 1960s/1970s, Norman Jack Leitman (cf. Lugt 4545), New York, London, and San Diego; sold by Leitman to Robert M. Light (dealer; b. 1929 – d. 2016), Boston and Santa Barbara; sold by Light to a private American collection; by 2021, sold by this private collection to C. G. Boerner, New York and Düsseldorf; 2022, sold by C. G. Boerner to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 6, 2022)