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The image depicts a young man named Joseph, standing at a slight angle. He is holding a bow and potentially an arrow. Joseph has curly shoulder-length hair and distinct facial features. He wears a pale yellow tunic with a blue cloak over his shoulders, along with knee-high red-laced sandals. In the background, there is a stone building, a circular tower, and various small figures. The sky is lightly clouded and there is greenery around the man's feet.
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The image depicts a young man named Joseph, standing at a slight angle. He is holding a bow and potentially an arrow. Joseph has curly shoulder-length hair and distinct facial features. He wears a pale yellow tunic with a blue cloak over his shoulders, along with knee-high red-laced sandals. In the background, there is a stone building, a circular tower, and various small figures. The sky is lightly clouded and there is greenery around the man's feet.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Benjamin

Jan Sadeler I after Crispen van den Broecke

Date
c. 1585; published 1643
Medium
hand-colored engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
overall (cut within platemark): 21.8 x 14.5 cm (8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2005.128.9.b
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
The Twelve Sons of Jacob

Subjects and terms

  • Flemish
  • Costume
  • Portrait
  • Arrow
  • Man
  • Writing
Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Inscription

upper center in plate: IOSEPH; lower right in plate: .ii.; in margin below image, in plate: Filius accrescens, aspectu pulcher Ioseph / Faemineo e turri co[n]vitio petitur. / Inuideam mihi co[n]traxit mea uita pudica / Quodq[ue] manus leuib[us], sit mihi pro[m]pta telis. (A growing son, fair of countenance, is Joseph. From the towers women abuse him. My chaste life has earned me hatred, as has my hand, so swift with light darts. [translation from Veldman, Ilja M., and H. J. de Jonge, "The sons of Jacob: the twelve patriarchs in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and popular literature," Simiolus, vol. 15 (1985), no. 3, p. 196.])

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