Hieronymous Wierix (1553-1619)

Hieronymous Wierix (1553-1619)- Virgin and sleeping child / Description: The Virgin and the sleeping child; the crowned Virgin adoring the Christ child sleeping in a bed covered with roses. Below image: 'Ecce tu...Cantic.1'; signed: 'Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud.' First state on two. / Dimensions: 8,60 x 6,40 cm Excellent impression on laid paper , trimmed on plate border and pasted on a laid paper collection sheet. / Literature: Meder G-I , 1511, without the white scratch between the column and the sponge at the top right for Meder H, with the beginning of the crack in the wood block of Meder I, but again without the 4 other cracks of Meder I. With Watermark Fishblase 1570 Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIX.133.20). Massari 1997 / In 'Simone Cantarini detto il Pesarese', ed. Andrea Emiliani (36) Engraving