Juda en Tamar, Hendrick Goltzius (rejected attribution), before 1596

Title(s)

Juda en Tamar

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-10.025

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 1
• Hollstein Dutch 416
• New Hollstein Dutch D1-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘Judas et Thamar’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Description

Ronde voorstelling van Juda en Tamar. Tamar op de voorgrond, gekleed als een courtisane. Op de achtergrond rechts zijn Tamar en Juda samen te zien.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (rejected attribution)

Place

Haarlem

Dating

before 1596

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

diameter 187 mm

What

• story of Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38)
• Tamar changes from her widow's clothes and covers her face with a veil after the manner of the prostitutes; sitting at the entrance of a city on the road to Timnath she awaits Judah

Acquisition

unknown

Copyright

Public domain

• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. IV, p. 236, cat.nr. D1