Artworks · Maarten de Vos

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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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