1027A

Saint Anthony the Abbot

Artist: Workshop of Jacques Honervogt I (ca. 1583 – ca. 1666)
Title: Saint Anthony the Abbot
Date: 1636
Medium: Engraving with etched highlights. Plate 2 of Solitudo sive Patrum Eremicolarum. After an engraving [TIB 7001.350] by Johan Sadeler I (ca. 1550-1600), itself after a drawing by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin. Published in Paris, rue St. Jacques, a la Ville de Cologne, first by Jacques Honervogt I (ca. 1583 – ca. 1666) in 1636. Then published, at the same address but possibly as part of other collections of anchorites, first by Gérard Jollain I (d. 1683) ca. 1654 and then by François Jollain (1641-1704) in 1688.
Photo Source: Bibliothèque Municipale de Lille (Shelfmark 43351).
Note: There are close versions of this subject, in the same direction, published by the workshops of Jean Leclerc IV (PESSCA 1482A) and Thomas de Leu.
Item: 1027A

Correspondences: Archive: 1027A/1027B; Archive: 1027A/1027B; Galleries: 1027A/1027B