ID: 700001326 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001326	Record Type: Movable Work

[Assumption of the Virgin] (engraving (print); Jan Witdoeck (Flemish printmaker, print publisher, ca.1615-a...; Published: 1639; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 1553-521; 532567; accession number: 2000.PR.4**)

Note: Title from Hollstein; Statement of responsibility and date are engraved below the image in the lower left corner: P.P. Rubens pinxit / H. Witdouc sculpsit Ao 1639; Privilege statement is engraved below the image, in the lower right corner: Cum priuilegiis Regis Christianissimi / Principum Belgarum et Ord. Batauiae; State I according to Bodart (cf. Rubens e l'incisione). Schneevoogt lists four prints executed by various artists after Rubens's painting of the Assumption for the Carthusian church in Brussels: H. Witdoeck, [Adrian] Huberti, Corn[elis] van Merlen, and N. [sic, i.e. François] Ragot. Schneevoogt records a state with the privilege statement abbreviated as "C. P. R. C.", to which Bodart refers as state II. Basan records a state with the privilege statement abbreviated as "C. P. R. C. P. B. & O. C."; The print is numbered in ink "133", in the lower right corner on recto; A reproductive print by Jan Witdoek after a drawing, possibly done by the engraver himself and corrected by Rubens (cf. Reznicek). Held suggests that the drawing reproduces, in reverse, an altar painting of the Assumption by Rubens. The painting, executed between 1637 and 1638, was intended for the main altar of the Carthusian church in Brussels, and is now in the Liechtenstein Collection in Vaduz; Witdoek's drawing is in the Uffizi. Differences in detail and composition between the painting and variant oil sketches are described by Held; The print depicts the theme of the Assumption in form of a multi-level composition and follows the basic iconography of the theme. The Virgin is shown in the upper part of the image, supported by angels in a cluster of clouds, ascending from her open sarcophagus, around which the Apostles stand looking on in amazement; Flemish draftsman, engraver and print publisher; known for his reproductive work after Rubens.1639. (34501/publishers)

Titles:

[Assumption of the Virgin] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

[Assumption of the Virgin]; [graphic]. (C,U,English,U,U)

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: 1639

Creator Display:

Jan Witdoeck (Flemish printmaker, print publisher, ca.1615-after 1642) [preferred,GRISC]

Witdoeck, Jan (Flemish printmaker, print publisher, ca.1615-after 1642) [500018132]

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

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: 1553-521; 532567; accession number: 2000.PR.4**

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, b&w

	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)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: image 62.3 x 47.7 cm, on sheet 64.4 x 48.2 cm

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Mary, Blessed Virgin [901000032]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Assumption of the Virgin Mary [901001007]
	.....((Life of the Virgin Mary, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: engraved below the image in the lower left corner: P.P. Rubens pinxit / H. Witdouc sculpsit Ao 1639; Privilege statement is engraved below the image, in the lower right corner: Cum priuilegiis Regis Christianissimi / Principum Belgarum et Ord. Batauiae; State I according to Bodart (cf. Rubens e l'incisione)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Assumption of the Virgin]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 532567
[Assumption of the Virgin]; [graphic].	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Schneevoogt, C. G. Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P. P. Rubens p. 77, no. 26-27

....................... Jaffé, M. Rubens : catalogo completo 1231

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