299 - Hendrick Goltzius, Jacob Mathan - Gluttony, from the Vices

Hendrick Goltzius, Jacob Mathan - Gluttony, from the Vices Description: The vices (in niche) Gluttony; a large female figure, whole-length to left, holding up a dish, in a niche. 1593. Lettered in lower right corner "HG. Inue." and numbered in lower left corner "2". With two lines in the margin "Ingluuies Bromy, ... legat." by "F.E." (Franco Estius) Dimensions: 32,50 x 17,00 cm Condition: Good impression on watermarked laid paper trimmed just inside, just outside plate border. Tipped with four corners on a collection sheet. Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 151 (Jacob Matham) Hollstein 278 New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 498-504 (Hendrick Goltzius; Prints after inventions by Goltzius) Bartsch III.165.133 . Jacob Matham (publisher/printer; printmaker; Dutch; Male; 1571 - 1631) Engraver and publisher in Haarlem. Pupil and stepson of Goltzius, who had married his mother in 1579. In Italy 1593-7. He took over the Goltzius shop in Haarlem around 1600. In 1601 Matham received his own privilege from Prague. Bibliography: Bartsch III, Hollstein, New Hollstein Lena Widerkehr, 'Jacob Matham Goltzij Privignus: Jacob Matham graveur et ses rapports avec Hendrick Goltzius', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 42-3 (1991 Medium: Engraving Date: 1593