Massacre of the Innocents, ca. 1617

  • Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617

Engraving printed in black, pen and brown ink and graphite on laid paper

  • Plate: 19 × 14 3/4 inches (48.3 × 37.5 cm) Sheet: 19 3/4 × 15 1/4 inches (50.2 × 38.7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S533

Signed, in plate, lower right of image: [artist's monogram]

Stamped, in red and purple, verso: Rijks Prentenkabinet (Lugt 240 and 699)

Rijks Prentenkabinet (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 2 (fig. 1 ill.), p. 11.

Hendrick Goltzius, Massacre of the Innocents, ca. 1617, engraving printed in black, pen and brown ink and graphite on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S533.