Job Tormented by His Wife and by Demons

between 1595 and 1675

Lucas Emil, the Elder Vorsterman, Artist Peter Paul Rubens, Artist

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Title Job Tormented by His Wife and by Demons

Artwork Date between 1595 and 1675

Makers Lucas Emil, the Elder Vorsterman (Artist) Flemish, 1595-1675 Peter Paul Rubens (Artist) Flemish, 1577-1640

Medium Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 15 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (38.7 × 25.7 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S1222

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate below image: [two line Latin inscription] Inscribed, below inscription lower left: P. P. Rubens pinxit. Inscribed, lower right: L. Vosterman excud. cum privileg. Inscribed, recto, lower right: [illegible pencil notations]

Marks Stamp, in black, verso: W. Koller (Lugt 2632)

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W. Koller

September 1887, C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad)

James E. Scripps

Mrs. James E. Scripps

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Baroque Prints: Innovation and Exploration. Exh. cat., Calvin College Center Art Gallery. Grand Rapids, 1983, no. 27.

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Lucas Emil, the Elder Vorsterman; after Peter Paul Rubens, Job Tormented by His Wife and by Demons, between 1595 and 1675, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1222.

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