ID: 700001064 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001064	Record Type: Movable Work

[The conversion of St. Paul] (engraving (print); Schelte Bolswert (Dutch painter and engraver, ca. 1586-1659)...; Published: 1600s; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 658135; (CMalG)1550-020; accession number: P990017** (FF. 28))

Note: Title from Hollstein. The print is also known as La conversion de saint Paul (cf. Dutuit); "P.P. Rubens pinxit"--lower portion of image; "S. à Bolswert sculp et excudit"--lower portion of image; "Cum priuilegijs Regis Christianissimi Serenissimae Infantis, et Ordinum confederatorum"--Lower portion of image, between adresses of artist and engraver; Two lines of Latin inscription in lower margin below the image: "Illustrissimo ac Reuerendissimo Domino, D. Antonio Trist ... magni Paulli amatori, imitatori, è Saullo Paullum."; "S. à Bolswert MM.DD.SS."--lower right corner of margin below the image; "Saule, Saule quid me persequeris?"--engraved near the figure of Christ; "Domine, quid me vis facere?"--engraved near the figure of St. Paul; The Flemish engraver Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, brother of Boëtius Bolswert, produced a large number of reproductive prints after Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck, and other artists; A reproductive print by Schelte Bolswert after a destroyed painting by Rubens from 1616-1617 (cf. Jaffé). In reverse to the painting; Forms part of Reproductive prints mostly after Peter Paul Rubens (Special Collections accn. no. P990017**). Publication: [16--].

Titles:

[The conversion of St. Paul] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Conversion de saint Paul. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive print [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1600s

Creator Display:

Schelte Bolswert (Dutch painter and engraver, ca. 1586-1659) [preferred,GRISC]

publishers unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

engraver (printmaker) Bolswert, Schelte (Dutch painter and engraver, ca. 1586-1659) [500005257]

Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter, 1577-1640) [500002921]

Burchard, Ludwig (British art historian, 1886-1960) [500117265]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 658135; (CMalG)1550-020; accession number: P990017** (FF. 28)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: plate mark 45 x 60.2 cm

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Conversion of Saint Paul [901001238]
	.....((Life of Saint Paul, Other Christian narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Paul the Apostle, Saint [901001058]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	depictions (visual works) [300248231]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

Provenance: Ludwig Burchard; artem Purchase

Inscriptions: Two lines of Latin inscription in lower margin below the image: "Illustrissimo ac Reuerendissimo Domino, D. Antonio Trist ... magni Paulli amatori, imitatori, è Saullo Paullum."; "S. à Bolswert MM.DD.SS." "P.P. Rubens pinxit"--lower portion of image; "S. à Bolswert sculp et excudit"--lower portion of image; "Cum priuilegijs Regis Christianissimi Serenissimae Infantis, et Ordinum confederatorum"--Lower portion of image, between adresses of artist and engraver; "Saule, Saule quid me persequeris?"--engraved near the figure of Christ; "Domine, quid me vis facere?"--engraved near the figure of St. Paul;

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[The conversion of St. Paul]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 658135
Conversion de saint Paul.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 vol. III, p. 80, 196

....................... Dutuit, E. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes vol. IV, p. 83, 129

....................... Jaffé, M. Rubens : catalogo completo 419

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)