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Maarten de Vos

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Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos was a Flemish painter, known mainly for his history and allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, together with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters in the Spanish Netherlands after Frans Floris's career slumped in the second half of the sixteenth century as a result of the Iconoclastic fury of the Beeldenstorm.

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Art Institute of ChicagoChicago National Gallery of ArtWashington, D.C.

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Artworks (12)

The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau

1581 · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer

21.2 × 19.5 cm (8 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Big Fish Eat the Small

1580 · Engraving in black on cream laid paper

Plate: 23.5 × 29.1 cm (9 5/16 × 11 1/2 in.); sheet: 25.9 × 33.6 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Annunciation

1570 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20 × 25.6 cm (7 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Matthew with Adam and Eve and the Tree of Jesse

1552 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper

205 × 260 mm (image/original sheet); 230 × 287 (backing sheet)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death of Niobe's Children

1552 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric

17.8 × 23.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Mark the Evangelist

1552 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

26.8 × 20.1 cm (10 9/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

1552 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and blue wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on card

19.4 × 28.8 cm (7 11/16 × 11 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Saint Margaret

1531 · Brush and gray wash, over incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

16.9 × 12.2 cm (6 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Arachne Being Turned into a Spider by Minerva

1500 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric

16.8 × 22.7 cm (6 5/8 × 8 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Atlanta Racing Hippomenes

1500 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric

16.9 × 22.6 cm (6 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triptolemus

1500 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric

17.5 × 23.5 cm (6 15/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dido and Aeneas Embracing before Gates of Carthage

1500 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric

17.5 × 23 cm (6 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Chicago, United States

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