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The Sorceress

1626
17th C.
Europe, the Netherlands
8 9/16 in. x 11 1/2 in. (21.7 cm x 29.2 cm)

By (primary)
Jan van de Velde II Dutch, c. 1593–1641

Medium: Engraving

Credit Line: Robert E. and Mary B. P. Gross Fund

Accession Number: 2005.16

Provenance

Private collection, Italy; C. & J. Goodfriend (dealer), New York, NY

Bibliography

Timothy Riggs and Larry Silver, Graven Images: The Rise pf Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem 1540-1640, exh. cat. Ackland Art Museum (1993), cat. 91; D. Franken and J. Ph. van der Kellen, L’Oeuvre de jan van de Velde (Amsterdam: Muller, 1883), no. 114 (pp. 68-69); Ger Luijten, Hollstein Dutch & Flemish..., vol. 33, no. 152; Linda C. Hults, The Witch as Muse-Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe (Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), pp138–139; Cantor Arts Center Journal, IV, 2004-2005, p. 84 (repr.)

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